Comments on Knowing Humans: Handicapping the PlatCom Survey

Internet surveys which requiure EVERY question to ...

2008-01-10T16:12:00.000-08:00

Internet surveys which requiure EVERY question to be answered before the screen will advance are disrespectful to the survey taker, and less useful for the originator. A NOTA response suggests that the question was poorly crafted or did not get to the heart of the issue, so response rates as well as percentages convey information. Though the topics here are well chosen and the questions clevely crafted, the underlying assumption is that the Platform is to be a manipulative tool rather than a statement of - however unevenly - shared views. By refusing to answer the quesions which characterize this, I could have, imperfectly, made this point. I'm able to take only a few of the surveys that come my way, but I try to congratulate the posters of the ones which allow nonresponses.

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2008-01-10T16:05:00.000-08:00

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Interesting. Here are my responses:1) a2) b3) a4) ...

2008-01-09T12:44:00.000-08:00

Interesting. Here are my responses:

1) a
2) b
3) a
4) neither
5) neither
6) b
7) a
8) a
9) a
10) b
11) b

I find it interesting that "reformer" Holtz reluctantly chose what he considers the "radical" options on 1 and 3, while "radical" me went the other way (without reluctance).

Looks like we agreed on four questions (6, 8, 10 and 11).

Regards,
Tom Knapp