On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > A small caution: *some* Japanese people think this is an issue. It is
> > very difficult for outsiders to assess *how many* do. We are naturally
> > hearing from the people who are most upset; it's hard to tell how
> > representative they are.
>
> I am an insider. I am a native Japanese speaker who was grown up in
> Japan and am living in Japan now.
Indeed so. But you are also an insider with strong opinions on the
matter, and that will influence your reporting, no matter how hard you try
to be impartial. (Even experimenters systematically recording data tend
to make errors favoring their own beliefs, perhaps because they are more
careful when recording "favorable" results. This is why medical
experiments nowadays always use "double blind" procedures, in which the
experimenter himself does not know which patients are getting which
treatment until afterward.)
Henry Spencer
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