Survey or original research results can serve the same purpose, if they turn out to be useful for the target audience.

如果调查和研究结果对目标访问者有用，那么它们也能起到同样的作用。

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Survey respondents were promised anonymity. Many scientists are reluctant to admit publicly that the 2c target is unrealistic, and several warned that simply raising the subject was sensitive.

递交调查答卷的科学家都被允许使用匿名，因为很多科学家并不愿意公开承认2c目标实现不了的现实，还有好几位科学家警告说，不要直截了当提出这样的敏感话题，还是小心为妙。

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Web Directions conducted a survey among mobile developers enquiring about their browser and platform of choice, what OS they are currently developing for, what OS they plan to target in the future.

Web Directions对移动开发者开展了一项调查，了解他们选择的浏览器和平台，他们正在哪个OS上进行开发，将来计划把哪个OS作为目标。

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In that article I touched on survey conducted by Target Marketing magazine, the channel that delivered the strongest ROI for customer acquisition for B2C marketers was direct mail.

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Last year, only about half the hospitals responding to the survey met Leapfrog's 2010 target for such births, of no more than 12% of total deliveries.

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It conducts a ten-minute online survey of a sample of its target audience--7, 500 people were included in a recent query--and divides them into two groups, those who have seen ads and those who've missed them.

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