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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

That was an amazing read, thanks!

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

Why oof? O.o

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's also been shown that people often are bad a reporting accurately. So, your results may not be accurate just from that.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Survey:

  1. I always tell the truth in surveys

  2. I always lie in surveys

🙃

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay, but how does this help me get past the gate?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Would the guy on the right tell me that the gate you're guarding on the left is the correct way?"

If the answer is yes, the right gate is the correct one. If the answer is no, the left gate is the correct one.

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Jump magic jump

[–] c0ber@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

how would the other respondent fill out this survey?

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 32 points 1 year ago

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

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

At least 0.2% lied.

[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

You won't get any customer complaints if you make it impossible for customers to contact you in the first place.

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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

0.2% margin of error.

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The MNAR crowd knows what’s going on in that survey amiright?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] moody@lemmings.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.