1.   The survey also asked companies about the salary level of executives recruited via headhunters.

2.   The survey did not ask where the boss was while all this was going on.

3.   First, a survey can ask only about a limited range of matters.

4.   The survey asked the public what it thought of the service and aimed to identify potential areas of improvement.

5.   Unfortunately, the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training.

6.   Among other things, the survey asks panelists about their hobbies and views on such topics as the death penalty.

7.   An explanation is that one survey asked employers how many people they have working for them.

8.   A new survey asked residents in states across the country if they lived in the South.

9.   A Peter D. Hart survey this month asked what people would like to see Congress concentrating on as its top priorities.