focus group
焦點團體
講解:
focus group是民意調查的常用術語,字面上是「焦點團體。作民調的時候,通常不可能訪問到每一個對象,只能用抽樣的方式,選出一個具有代表性的團體來進行訪問或填寫問卷。這種抽樣團體就是focus group。
例句:
Last Wednesday,the morning after President George W. Bush made his prime-time debut,more than a dozen House and Senate Democrats gathered for a postmortem in the L.B.J. Room of the Capitol. Pollster Geoff Garin ran through the results of his focus groups—what viewers had responded to, what they were still worried about.(出自:TIME,Mar. 12,2001,p. 32)
上周三,也就是小布什總統首度在電視黃金時段亮相的第二天早上,十來位參眾兩院的民主黨議員聚集在國會山莊約翰遜廳進行檢討。民調人員喬夫蓋林報告他各個抽樣團體的民調結果—觀眾對布什演說中哪些部分有共鳴、對哪幾點仍然感到擔憂。