Asian dads get a 'C' for being clueless

I read an article recently on a study conducted by Reader's Digest with teenagers in 8 locations in Asia, which rates the amount of knowledge Asian dads gets for being knowledgeable of their children's lives to be rated at an average grade of C. Some of the worst Dads scored Ds in Hong Kong and Taiwan with grades in the D+ range. The Singapore dad got a C-. His counterparts in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Korea fared as badly. They also got a C-. Even the best-performing fathers — from Thailand — got only a C.

More than 3,000 teenagers aged 14 to 18 from eight places took part in the survey in January. They were asked to grade their parents in 38 questions relating to parenting, from how good they are at listening, to how much they care.

In my opinion, surely the results from this survey cannot be considered reliable considering it was conducted with merely 3,000 teenagers for 8 Asian countries. If you spread out the 3,000 from 8 different countries, that means that only a handful (perhaps a few hundred) were Hong Kongers; compared to the population, a few hundred is an insignificant number. We also have to bear in mind that typically teenagers (14-18) are known to be pretty stupid, even/especially in Western societies. Kids around that age listen to Smashing Pumpkins/Beyond songs and generally are full of hatred for the world anyway!