According to a survey of 168 editors in Taiwan taken this August in the "Formosa" section of the China Times, only 26 % of those surveyed felt that editing was a field with a bright future. This low self-assessment may well prove to be an obstacle in Taiwanese editors 'attempts to rise to a higher professional level.
根據中國時報「浮世繪版」二○○四年八月對台灣一百六十八位編輯所發出的問卷調查顯示，受訪者中認為編輯這一行大有前景的只有 26％，「自我效能感不高」似乎就是台灣編輯人才更上層樓的阻礙。