The sheer mass of humanist information is overwhelming. There is not a one of us who lives unaffected by his surroundings, or the people in his life. We perceive that humanism is very important. What we perceive influences our lives. This fact has brought about the extensive use of surveys to gain a perception of what man thinks.
Surveys are a natural to natural man, and have become major opinion-formers.
We get percentages, statistics, and numbers of people who do, people who don t, types who will, types who won t. They are used as a merchandising tool, for political suasion, as legal weapons. Surveys pack smack with people. If the message is couched in something we value or admire, it s got bigger wallop and we re impressed. We aren t likely to verbalize our gullibility, but we definitely do buy by it.