Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It’s baffling. This is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.
Forced to lie on a questionnaire
Submitted 1 month ago by TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Where i live, none of the forms to apply for a flat ask only allowed questions. The respective agency even provides a summary, what questions are not allowed (like gender, religion) because discrimination potenzial but all ask at least two of them.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bias. Good 'ol plain bias.
Unless you’re very self-aware, one requires actual training and practiced mindfulness to break free from that in all endeavors. There’s also some lack-of-the-outside-world going on too - one would need to have at least thought about world experiences apart from one’s own, to consider alternative possibilities.
icedterminal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
By not having “None of the above” or an “Other” allowing you to fill in the blank, instantly discards this data as viable. which makes this question pointless to even answer, let alone ask.
EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I think they shot themselves in the foot, one thing thats worse than no data is weong data. And they are forcing people to produce wrong data.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Choose every option.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pinterest. They’re like half of google results.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
And I never understood how to use it. If I click on a Google result from Pinterest I’m always taken to something completely different.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not with -pinterest
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or maybe google shouldn’t include spam in its results.
tyler@programming.dev 1 month ago
If you use kagi you can just permanently block Pinterest. And any other site you want. Or rank their listings lower.
tyler@programming.dev 1 month ago
If you use kagi you can just permanently block Pinterest. And any other site you want. Or rank their listings lower.
tibi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I seriously don’t understand why anyone would use it. It’s basically a platform that copies images from the internet and lets you bookmark them. Something browsers had since the 90s. Or you could just download the pictures to a folder, so you can see all the thumbnails.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wow. I can honestly say I spend less than an hour a week on all of those. I wasn’t expecting that.
III@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can honestly say I have spent less than an hour in my life on all of those added together. Probably less than 10 minutes. Does that mean I am winning?
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It does, in fact.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I spend about 10-20 mins on Snapchat a week.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Zero on all for me.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If they don’t count FBMsgr for family/portalTV chat, then I’m under an hour as well.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All they need to do is put YouTube on there for a more meaningful survey.
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I hate that “social media” is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. “Social networking site” is great, straightforward and descriptive. But “social media” encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for “traditional media” which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!
All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I’m too young to be this mad about it.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Would be my only answer, unless Lemmy is there too.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Still would be zero for me.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Touching grass I see
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Think of it as giving them bad data.
pipes@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m exclusively on Pinterest 100hours/week. (I forgot to close the tab with the image search for cool origami)
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
What’s the coolest origami you’ve ever made? Never tried it but it seems fun.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No one will like hearing this answer but they may already underrated the issue of it being bad data and have a good reason not to care.
Here’s the thing. When “none” or “skip” is there, people gravitate toward it. You end up getting 75% of people saying “none” for every question, and then your entire survey is meaningless. I hate surveys too. Everyone hates them. All the more reason to just mash “skip” or “none.” Because fuck you and fuck your survey.
Meanwhile, what % of people don’t touch any of these social networks? Maybe we can’t say for sure, but it’s way less than 75%.
So you’re choosing between two possible sources of bad data, and choosing the one you know to be of lower magnitude.
superkret@feddit.org 1 month ago
Then provide an “other” option with a text box instead.
Make entering some text mandatory if you click it.
No one gravitates toward that.
Besides, a “none” option can just be discarded when you analyze the data.
If all your boxes are social media sites, you have no idea which ones are poisoned by bad data, and by how much.
RBWells@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What the what? There is no “none of these” choice? In that case I’d check them all. And in the next screen when they ask how many hours for each, put 100 hours for each of them.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Who is Pinterest really for?
RBWells@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No idea. One of my kids likes it, I always block Pinterest results on searches once I figured out how, because I can’t stand that site.
Scorbunny@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mostly just older moms and people into arts and crafts. My mom used it for a while and i would get some fairly outdated memes from Pinterest. She and Dad mostly just use Facebook nowdays though.
zerofk@lemm.ee 1 month ago
There are 168 hours in a week. Why not use them all?
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Put 0 hours for each of them
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Didn’t even have Reddit lmao
mriswith@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They sabotaged themselves by squashing popular votes with an algorithm, so a large amount of people don’t realize how many users it has. You can go look at recent popular tweets and see 200k reactions, meanwhile the top posts on reddit show 10-30k votes, despite having 10-50x times as many behind the scenes.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Hey, look, all the sites I specifically avoid, plus Pinterest which just happens to get avoided.
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I got the uBlacklist Firefox extension specifically to block Pinterest from search results.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pinterest… I got a Pinterest account because my wife recommended it after I asked what it was.
I got it. Very uninteresting. I see one image of like, lingerie or something, so I’m a heterosexual dude and I click that shit, think to myself, hey that’s sexy, maybe my wife will look good in that.
Kid you not, my feed was nothing but lingerie and sexy stuff after that, and women’s clothing. And there was seemingly no way to reset my algorithm or delete my view history or anything. I wanted to see stuff from my interests, like art, skateboarding, gaming, sports, computing, technology, what have you. But my feed was ruined forever.
My bad, I guess. 🤷♂️
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just search for something else.
I use it a lot to find photos to draw and paint from, but I do use some unknown site to do it (on the web so adblockers work), the app or the normal website is a total trainwreck but this one is fine IMO: kr.pinterest.com/pin/
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 month ago
how the hell someone can use pinterest for more than one hour a week? Just accidentally browse it when trying to search an image on the web and curse the ux team to have hidden the download button in a way that you click the image and brings you in a completely unrelated site with 10000 images except the one you wanted
Zacryon@feddit.org 1 month ago
Collecting cute images of fruit bats and wolves.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Before they went all out nuclear with ads, promoted content, shops, and AI slop, I was using Pinterest a shit ton to look at fanart and memes (mostly stolen/reposted art, but real human art at least). I’d be on there for an hour or so every other day tbh, I liked making boards of my fixations and shit.
Then the app went to hell a few years back and I ditched it, because the web version sucks, and I didn’t know about LibRedirect instances. Now I just don’t bother with the place anymore.
Ghost@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If you’re a visual artist it’s great for finding reference and inspiration material. When I’m not sure exactly what I want to draw I’ll usually scroll Pinterest for a bit, find something that gives me an idea, then use Pinterest again to source reference material for said idea. So if I’m really in the mood to draw I can definitely rack up a couple hours in Pinterest a week.
Lanske@lemmy.world 1 month ago
None of the above?
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
“Please poison my data”
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would get discord, youtube, lemmy, and reddit
I try to avoid new platforms tho bc I don’t trust myself not to get addicted and social media already takes up too much of my time
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I don’t use any of those. Quit Facebook 10 years ago and never really used the others. I just got booted (the account was literally vapourized)off of Reddit after 9 yrs today. Posted a pic of a hat that said is he dead yet. No text just the pic. I don’t care anymore really as once Reddit went on the stock market it was all over anyhoo.
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 month ago
You’re… You’re on Lemmy now? How can you claim not to use ‘any of those’ when you’re posting on one of those?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
closes questionnaire
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’d just abandon it if I couldn’t answer a question or it was too involved (like a free text box answer).
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 1 month ago
Which is why proper survey design never allows for this.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Lol tell them you use Pinterest.
viking@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Why bother taking the survey then, or is it somehow mandatory?
flango@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
Select all
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Choose at least one option? I don’t use any of those platforms. My only social media is Lemmy and Reddit.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Oh man I’m taking research class this is non exhaustive because there are gaps in the survey such as a lack of other or none and there’s a second criteria I can’t remember
I really hope my professor doesn’t have lemmy
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The questionaire is kinda badly made but also i would choose snapchat because for some reason everyone i know uses it.
Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m a middle aged guy, so I only use Snapchat. Because me and my friends have children and no free time so that’s how we keep in touch and share our lives.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Lemmy
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Lemmy, Sharkey, and YouTube for me. I’m on Facebook, but less than an hour a week. A friend posts a weekly “how’s everyone doing?” post and I usually comment on that.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Can I participate in this survey?
pewpew@feddit.it 1 month ago
Pinterest is not even a social
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Snapchat for only texting other people
Instagram for memes & some minor ““celebrities”” (YouTubers and some trans folk that give tips)
Pinterest for outfits/tattoo designs/etc. I get memes from there and post to 196 sometimes.
discord for uhhhh… discord stuff, idk. I scroll meme channels sometimes. and sometimes chat
YouTube for 99% of my online things. Unhealthy AF addition
Lemmy for more memes and news (not the best practice tbh) I mainly use just bc I want to support the fediverse and it’s better than scrolling reposted Instagram reels
I don’t use any twitter/bsky/threads/mastodon type platform, I just don’t mesh with the type I guess. It’s just short political stuff that’s depressing and memes which I get from literally everywhere else 🤷♀️
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Username checks out?
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s objectively poor survey design. For questions like that there should always be an ‘Other’ option. There should also be a ‘None’ or ‘N/A’ option.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Agreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I complained in the “other” box that they did include for a different question lol
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 month ago
I was thinking the same thing. But if this was a survey specifically for social media, there wouldn’t be a N/A option except at the beginning to make you not have to continue further and waste your time and theirs. (Survey for getting users’ input on social media use, etc.)
But definitely agreed on other. There are so many social media sites out there.
Genius@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
There’s way more social media than these options. Where’s?
Reddit
4chan
Lemmy
Mastodon
Bluesky
Forums
Discord
YouTube
Patreon
Medium
Steam
Whatsapp
Pornhub
VRchat
Some of these are very very popular. Asking people their social media habits, and preventing people on most social media from answering, will produce garbage biased data. I hope this study fails peer review and the PhD student responsible flunks.