Surveys via the Internet

[Perry]

Many times, I've wondered if most surveys are designed to get
the answers the survey company thinks their customer wants.

The idiotic questions and stupid set-up in some beggar belief.

"Thank you - you may now close your browser" at the end
seems to show that the survey IT folks are so far behind the
times that they don't know about tabbed browsing.

Options for "why did you choose the brand you did" don't have
a "it was the only one available" answer option.

Any people in that industry on PT?

If so, perhaps you could explain why survey monkeys seem to
want to personify objects and other similarly stupid questions?

******** is a brand you can trust?

I trust no brand. Trust is a person thing, you know?

******* is for smart shoppers?

Who or what is a smart shopper? Someone who can decode
advertising spin and BS?

On and on the fatuous questions go.

[Keys]

Just done one huh?

[Perry]

Been doing them for a while, actually. It's amusing
to see what passes for non-intelligent questions
and vacuous answer options.

Although it's a minor compensation, I've probably
earned around $90-120 in pocket money, so far,
for my stoic efforts.

The implicit/explicit presumptions are a bit of a laugh,
at times, too. It seems that survey companies do
not see it as at all possible that any household in NZ
could not have a TV.

They've also obviously never heard of Rudyard Kipling:

I have six little serving-men - they taught me all I knew
Their names are What and Why and When And How and
Where and Who.