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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...".       --       Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England        1972-now W Australia              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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