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Surveys 🙄
I've participated in a few online surveys recently. Not the kind that are like, "Please rate your recent call with us on a scale of 1-10" but the kind that are like "Tell us what you think about various products/brands in Category X." Ordinarily these surveys would be worth little mention— worth as little as the minuscule rewards they offer as payment— except for how ridiculous the questions they ask are, given *gestures broadly at everything* the state of the world the past 11½ months.
Which of the following have you done in the past year? a typical question asks, with answers such as:
( ) Seen a movie in a movie theater
( ) Attended a live concert in person
( ) Traveled internationally
( ) Purchased an F-15 Strike Eagle
I see questions like this over and over, and each time I think, "Wait, is this a trick question?" ...Sure, the one about purchasing an F-15 Strike Eagle clearly is a trick question. It's an $80 million fighter jet. I presume that choice is in there— yes, I literally have seen it in a survey— to catch people & bots who are ticking all the boxes. But the rest of them? Part of me wonders if the survey is being run by the health authorities to see who's breaking the law.
After being disqualified from numerous surveys for, well, having been on planet Earth where a raging global pandemic has curtailed a variety of once-common commercial activities the past year, I finally got past the screening questions on one last night. Amusingly, that survey even had notes in its questions that many activities it asked about would be extremely limited. Well, at least one market research team is familiar with Earth c. 2020 CE.
Which of the following have you done in the past year? a typical question asks, with answers such as:
( ) Seen a movie in a movie theater
( ) Attended a live concert in person
( ) Traveled internationally
( ) Purchased an F-15 Strike Eagle
I see questions like this over and over, and each time I think, "Wait, is this a trick question?" ...Sure, the one about purchasing an F-15 Strike Eagle clearly is a trick question. It's an $80 million fighter jet. I presume that choice is in there— yes, I literally have seen it in a survey— to catch people & bots who are ticking all the boxes. But the rest of them? Part of me wonders if the survey is being run by the health authorities to see who's breaking the law.
After being disqualified from numerous surveys for, well, having been on planet Earth where a raging global pandemic has curtailed a variety of once-common commercial activities the past year, I finally got past the screening questions on one last night. Amusingly, that survey even had notes in its questions that many activities it asked about would be extremely limited. Well, at least one market research team is familiar with Earth c. 2020 CE.