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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours 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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[-] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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

Survey:

  1. I always tell the truth in surveys

  2. I always lie in surveys

🙃

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[-] c0ber@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

how would the other respondent fill out this survey?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 32 points 1 day ago
[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

That was an amazing read, thanks!

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago

Why oof? O.o

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago

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

[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

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

Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 10 points 19 hours ago

Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago
[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 29 points 23 hours 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 21 points 1 day ago

At least 0.2% lied.

[-] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

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

[-] moody@lemmings.world 30 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours 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.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 2 points 23 hours ago

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

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