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   Robert Bannister to John F. Eldredge   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   25 Jan 14 09:06:39   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 25/01/2014 7:21 am, 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.   
   >   
      
   Very true. I do a lot of online surveys, and in the box most of them   
   provide for comments, I find myself writing time and time again "In   
   Question X, you forced me to lie because...".   
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