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   Brian M. Scott to All   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   25 Jan 14 00:28:05   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:06:39 +0800, Robert Bannister   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.science,rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > On 25/01/2014 7:21 am, John F. Eldredge wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> 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...".   
      
   When I encounter such a question, I simply ditch the survey   
   at that point.   
      
   Brian   
      
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