When we mentioned to Chang Chao-jung, the estate's Ami headman, that we wished to interview Han Chinese families on the estate, he readily agreed, and taking his own house as the starting point, quite "scientifically" selected what was more or less a "fixed-interval sample."
當我們向頭目江朝榮提出希望走訪社區中的漢人家庭時，他欣然允諾，並且相當「科學」地以自家為中心，做約略的「等距抽樣」。