Biased surveys ?

Liam Byrne

Report in The Examiner today that a survey commissioned by An Post shows that "most Irish people like receiving junk unsolicited marketing mail"

Can't help thinking that that's a "survey" that's just rigged to convince other companies to sign up to stuff that ends up in my recycle bin unread.

So

1) Does anyone here actually like junk mail ?

2) Any other examples of blatantly biased results that are "coincidentally" exactly what the commissioning agent/company would have wanted ?

biko

Helps get the fire started. Never read it though.

Snakeblood

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Report in The Examiner today that a survey commissioned by An Post shows that "most Irish people like receiving junk unsolicited marketing mail"

Can't help thinking that that's a "survey" that's just rigged to convince other companies to sign up to stuff that ends up in my recycle bin unread.

So

1) Does anyone here actually like junk mail ?

2) Any other examples of blatantly biased results that are "coincidentally" exactly what the commissioning agent/company would have wanted ?

I know a guy who works in junk mail (in the US). He'll stop at nothing to convince people he's providing a valuable public service informing people about their options, and thinks that people who get angry about junk mail are crazy.

Of course, everyone hates him.

I saw a survey that said of the 21 people who came in to an irish dentist after getting dentistry abroad, 16 of them reported problems with their teeth.

Which is accurate as far as it goes, except that it doesn't cover how many people went abroad in the first place, and also what or where stuff was done. It's also too small a sample, even if it was accurate. If 21 Irish people go into a dentist, they probably have something wrong.

AckwelFoley

Liam Byrne wrote: »

1) Does anyone here actually like junk mail ?

2) Any other examples of blatantly biased results that are "coincidentally" exactly what the commissioning agent/company would have wanted ?

1. No - hate Junk mail

2. All surveys, have a strong chance of being inaccurate for so many reasons i wont bother mentioning.



Remember hearing about a guy in america that lived in the middle of nowhere - he signed up to thousands of junk mail things over the internet - essentially junk subscriptions - so he had all this junk mail arriving to his door everyday which he burned and used to heat his home for free. lol

GrahamThomas

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Any other examples of blatantly biased results that are "coincidentally" exactly what the commissioning agent/company would have wanted ?

This springs to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjh13hxehl4

Mrmoe

biko wrote: »

Helps get the fire started.

If only we could say the same about Airtricity salesmen. Damn lazy gits.

Lux23

Some companies go to agencies and say I want a survey with these results so the agency script a questionaire to get those results. Its no secret.

Son Of A Vidic

A survey I commissioned earlier, revealed that 99.99% of people questioned, enjoyed inhaling my Farts!

chin_grin

This guy is on the frontlines of the junk mail war.

msg11

chin_grin wrote: »

This guy is on the frontlines of the junk mail war.

The unleased the spam bots on the website ...

Dear everyone:
After a hiatus, and some brief inactivity by the admins, we've come back to see that the website's pagerank attracted a large amount of spam. The reach of these spammers wasn't simply the standard "make it bigger" spam, but rather, they posted things that were illegal. (imagine the kind of stuff you don't want to see on the internet, and multiply it by a hundred million posts). We decided it's safer for everyone if we take the forums down, at least for the time being. Our appologies for any offense taken by the content of these spammers. Thanks for your continued support,
The Admins

chin_grin

msg11 wrote: »

The unleased the spam bots on the website ...

Site loads grand for me. Then again I do have a spam filter.....oh ho ho ho.