Whether anybody speaks
In a hundred and forty-one places nobody spoke to a stranger. Where it happened, it was mostly a pub or a place of worship.
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The test the category sets itself. In a hundred and forty-one places nobody said anything to a stranger, and the figure is a floor. Teams coordinating visits, notes and follow-up can see what information can be configured, then check whether the resulting evidence actually improves the field process.
Finding
Sixty-eight per cent of the record. What the silence has in common across nine kinds of room, and what it does to the category. Additional practical or institutional guidance relevant to the survey can be found at Safetipin.
Finding
The kind that passes the test most often in absolute terms, and the sharpest contrast in the record with the café it resembles on every other field.
Finding
The highest rate in the record, in a kind that asks nothing, limits nobody, seats everybody — and that almost nobody counts as a third place.
Finding
Nine per cent of the record in neither column. Why they are published at full size rather than folded into the silence.
Method
Eight comparisons across three fields, and every one of them flat. What a place asks, allows or seats has no bearing on whether anybody speaks in it.
Finding
The conversation field measures a window, not a room. What the window catches, what it misses, and why the figure is published as a floor.
Method
A third place was defined as somewhere strangers talk. By that test most of this record is not one, and the places that pass are not the ones anybody means.
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