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   Your Name to john@jfeldredge.com   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   25 Jan 14 13:05:06   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , John F. Eldredge   
    wrote:   
   > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:10:39 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   > >   
   > > Yep, I've done and be in numerous surveys too, and they're all   
   > > completely worthless due to many varying reasons, mostly thanks to the   
   > > idiotic and misleading way the "results" are reported.   
   >   
   > My pet peeve with surveys is that the correct answer to a question is   
   > often "none of the above", yet very few surveys allow this as a choice.   
   > Online surveys, in particular, usually won't let you save the results   
   > until you have chosen one of the answers the survey-writer supplied.   
      
   Yep, I've often seen that in online surveys, usually (but by no means   
   always) the ones written by fools using somewhere like SurveyMonkey to   
   try and prove their own point.   
      
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