Using an internet forum for Social Research

[seireikhaan]

Yes I know, but that is the problem I would have with this data - the whole purpose appears to be to draw false conclusions. However, now I am really interested in exploring the similarities between socio-economic class and favourite food type.

Not at all. If that were the point, why do businesses utilize statistics so much? They need to know who to market a product to, where to market it to, where to expand, how they are perceived, etc... Not, of course, that statistics can't be used to draw false conclusions- however, this tends to be much more out of political or cultural convictions, not out of any fault of the statistic. Again, a statistic is just a number- what you draw from it is what's truly important.