We sent surveys to 14 target interviewees, 11 of whom completed the survey, yielding a 78.5% response rate.
The target interviewees held supervisory and managerial jobs in the maritime industry pertaining to ship management, marine insurance, government body, ship brokerage, terminals, liner firms and ship agencies.
The target interviewee was the householder with the most recent birthday.
In phase 4, questions were presented about the acceptance of nudges targeted at the interviewee him/herself.
These parameters may account for the good level of awareness of the guideline BP targets that the interviewees demonstrated, as they were probably more motivated to seek, and able to comprehend, relevant medical information.
Leon Wolf, an author at Redstate, one of the publications listed by the Gizmodo interviewees as having been targeted for exclusion, said he had not seen evidence of the kind of tampering mentioned by Gizmodo.
With the project managers' viewpoints regarding the places of intervention, the interviewees were selected from the individuals targeted by the interventions.
Twelve interviewees is a relatively small number; however, the sample mainly targeted technical professionals who were working for cloud provider companies.
Interviewees suggested that this could be done in a practical way with leaflets targeted at schools, hospitals or public authorities.
A group interview was an in-depth interview targeted at a group of people with the intention of gaining information and insights from the interviewees, with communication being bi-directional between the interviewer and the interviewees without involving discussion between the group participants.
