{"id":683,"date":"2008-10-06T07:04:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T11:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=683"},"modified":"2008-10-06T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T13:39:29","slug":"take-our-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Take our survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some weeks now I have been assigned to the Financial Good News Desk here at Language Log Plaza. It took me longer than it should have done for me to realize that this was just some sort of practical joke aimed at making sure I did not write anything, apparently because of pressure from the office of the Vice President of the United States (because of posts like this one<\/A>, I suppose). I eventually applied for a transfer, and have now been assigned to the Research Survey Department. So I have to send out surveys. Please answer the questions below in your own time despite the considerable difficulties with format and the obscurity of the questions, and return by email at our convenience to surveys@research.languagelog.com<\/B>, where an automatic system will use it to generate data entirely for our benefit rather than yours.<\/P> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you believe the world has gone survey mad and that nearly all surveys done are a gigantic waste of time?<\/td>\n__ strongly agree
__ sort of agree
__ utterly undecided
__ hardly care
__ sort of disagree
__ strongly disagree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Do you think surveys asking for people's opinions about the way things are, rather than verifiable things they have done, are an even more extreme form of stupidity, resulting in nonsense like \"43% of employees believe managers may be snooping on them\" being passed off as news or even social science?<\/td>\n__ strongly agree
__ sort of agree
__ utterly undecided
__ hardly care
__ sort of disagree
__ strongly disagree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Does it sometimes occur to you to just refuse to do any more surveys until the morons who make them up show some signs of getting their act together?<\/td>\n__ strongly agree
__ sort of agree
__ utterly undecided
__ hardly care
__ sort of disagree
__ strongly disagree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Do you sometimes suspect certain surveys of having commercial motivations that are not fully disclosed until later?<\/td>\n__ strongly agree
__ sort of agree
__ utterly undecided
__ hardly care
__ sort of disagree
__ strongly disagree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Is your home fully carpeted throughout with high-quality fitted carpets that you would not want to replace even if one of Language Log's commercial partners was able to offer you an extremely good-value product?<\/td>\n__ strongly agree
__ sort of agree
__ utterly undecided
__ hardly care
__ sort of disagree
__ strongly disagree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What do you believe are the reasons why the form of the question sometimes has no discernible relation to the selection of possible answers the format provides, when even the most elementary linguistic consideration would immediately highlight the incompatibility?<\/td>\n__ strongly agree
__ sort of agree
__ utterly undecided
__ hardly care
__ sort of disagree
__ strongly disagree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Is Language Log the best goddamn linguistics blog anywhere on the web, and possibly in the entire universe?<\/td>\n__ strongly agree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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