One Unexpected Benefit To The Upcoming Elections Is....
@danishcanadian (28954)
Canada
August 21, 2019 12:22pm CST
I'm a Canadian married to an American, so we are following two upcoming federal elections at the same time. In America they'll vote in 2020, and here in Canada, we will vote in October.
In the past few days I've noticed that a benefit of this is that I qualify for more online surveys, simply by answering the question "are you qualified to vote in Canada?" Of course my husband gets the ones that ask if he's qualified to vote in the USA.
Are you finding any interesting benefits to the upcoming elections? If you participate in surveys, are you getting more now than you would when there isn't an upcoming election?
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@BarBaraPrz (51818)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Aug 19
I keep getting that Qualtronics one but I don't do it because they want yes or no answers when all I can say is maybe.
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@jprtist (656)
• Pueblo, Colorado
21 Aug 19
Mark Twain said; "There are three types of lies, 'lies', 'Damn Lies', and 'statistics'.
Unfortunately, in this country, most statistics are derived from data acquisition methods in surveys. I've seen this first hand, as I used to participate in market research, and I saw the interviewers mess with the data collected to serve their own points of view.
As a rule, I won't respond to a survey unless I'm fully familiar with who's collecting, and interpreting the data. I don't want my answers used inappropriatly.
