Ongoing Process

I just lost my main hard drive. 

Random thought: Huge amounts of our perceptions of society are driven by various forms of surveys and polls.  Everything from politics to psychology to marketing attempts to understand the human condition using these as their primary tools.  However, there is an entire class of people who never participate in them.  These people, who I am among, when asked to take a survey or upon seeing an ad for a study never have the slightest inclination to engage.

How much of the population falls into this category?  We’ll never know, really (at least not by polling).  But I can’t help but suspect that it’s a lot.  Maybe even most.  And what do they have in common?  At the very least, their shared disinterest in studies is indicative of something about their character.  Whatever the specifics may be, it seems certain that the fact that they exist means that our entire collective understanding of humanity is somehow fundamentally skewed.

So the question is, what are we missing?