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sampling bias (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Survey:

  1. I always tell the truth in surveys

  2. I always lie in surveys

🙃

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Jump magic jump

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

how would the other respondent fill out this survey?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Which means 0.2% lied

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

At least 0.2% lied.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months 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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

0.2% margin of error.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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