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[โ€“] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Survey:

  1. I always tell the truth in surveys

  2. I always lie in surveys

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[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I especially lie on corpo surveys. It's delicious hatorade.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/fake-data-haterapps/

[โ€“] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

2 (I don't normally but I am now >:)

[โ€“] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 70 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Technically theres always a bias of the most amusing answer so the "no" would be close to 5% at a minimum.

[โ€“] smeg@feddit.uk 28 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

That was an amazing read, thanks!

[โ€“] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oof I didn't know that was a Scott Alexander thing

[โ€“] MonkeMischief 3 points 8 hours ago

Why oof? O.o

[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.

[โ€“] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

0.2% of surveys get some kind of 0.2% response, especially if the survey is about statistics.

[โ€“] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

that's not how it works. That's not how anything works!

Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.

[โ€“] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 9 points 15 hours ago

Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.

[โ€“] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 37 points 22 hours ago (3 children)
[โ€“] Fermion@feddit.nl 26 points 19 hours ago

Or some portion of people generally prefer throwing surveys in the trash, but for unknown reasons decided to complete that one.

[โ€“] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago

At least 0.2% lied.

[โ€“] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Or they retrieved the survey from the bin, after tossing the former into the latter.

[โ€“] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I think it's safe to assume if they didn't respond they do not love responding to surveys.

[โ€“] moody@lemmings.world 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's almost like that's the joke presented in comic form.

It's almost like my comment was dripping with cynicism.

[โ€“] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's the real answer. 500 responses vs how many sent out

[โ€“] recapitated@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Maybe. But if there were 10000 sent and 500 responses, that still isn't enough information. You would need to know how many were even handled and perceived by the intended recipient.

But maybe you can work around this by canvasing in person rather than fire and forget.

[โ€“] Kalkaline@leminal.space 2 points 19 hours ago

Also there's at least a small set of respondents with fat fingers.