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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." And then the OP runs a questionable survey that doesn't warrant the conclusion (which by the
by diego 14y ago
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
And then the OP runs a questionable survey that doesn't warrant the conclusion (which by the way, is not earth-shattering).
- You could not be on Facebook / Twitter and still pick one of the other answers.
- You could be one of the services but not the other, and pick the first answer. What does Facebook "/" Twitter mean? AND or OR? Completely unclear.
- If the order of the options wasn't randomized, you would likely get a bias towards the first option. Don't know if this was the case.
- azakai 14y agoThe article does say the order was randomized. But there is a bigger problem: one of the options is "I’m scared of scams." Regardless of reading order, if you read all the options before answering - and presumably most people do - then this causes what psychologists call a "priming" effect. You start to think about scams, and you can then behave very differently than if that option were not in the survey.
- diego 14y agoI agree. There's a great "Yes Prime Minister" video about this. I just wrote a blog post about how it relates to this poll. http://diegobasch.com/google-surveys-know-what-you-are-asking http://diegobasch.com/google-surveys-know-what-you-are-askin...