Statistics - What do they tell us ?

[KKOB]

The image below has been posted on a social website by a Turkish friend. Whilst I understand the words and figures I don't know whether there are any true comparisons between Japan and Turkey. Is it just like "comparing apples and oranges" as one of my old bosses used to say.

Discuss.  

[JohnF]

Ho hum, social media and Turks.  Dont yah just lurvvve it.

Not much to discuss, figures quoted are p1sh and more like comparing a dogs jobbie to a hippopotamuses jobbie. 

Next....

JF

[LeeGlo]

Talking of statistics, we had a couple of people round tonight, complete with laptop and listing of residents names, and official looking ID badges. Neither of them spoke English and my Turkish is somewhat limited, they were asking loads of questions, most of which I couldn't understand. The general gist seemed to be how old are you, how many in the family, do you live here permanently, do you think this, that and the other are expensive in Turkey etc.
When I asked what it was for the only English the guy seemed to know was "statistics".

[KKOB]

I'd have told them to 'git'.  

[LeeGlo]

To be fair we had received a letter a few days before telling us about this "survey", it's all to do with demographics , who and what type of people live where, what is their income bracket and age ratio etc. Letter came from some official outfit in Denizli. A bit like a census type exercise.
It was quite funny hearing them try to pronounce our surname, which has a ck in the middle.