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Title: Questions with no right answers
Post by: 1imaginarygirl on May 24, 2018, 08:00:33 am
Some of these surveys are so poorly written. I get survey questions a lot that I can't answer honestly, such as "What type of cancer have you been diagnosed with?". Well I haven't been diagnosed with cancer, and there is no "None of the above" option. Or sometimes the pre-qual question will be "What's your annual household income range?" and the answer choices will be "dog, cat, hamster, ..."

So what do you do when these questions come up? Just pick any answer, or quit out of the survey and forfeit the DQ$?
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: gwilson31 on May 24, 2018, 08:44:50 am
I end up quitting a few surveys because they don't have the right option for me to answer a question.  Sometimes they have questions like "you stated earlier that you have cancer" (or something) ??????????????  :pumpkin: :pumpkin:
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: NRAJOE on May 25, 2018, 11:55:41 am
Pick one....usually get dq'd anyways... :thumbsup: ::)
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: hitch0403 on May 25, 2018, 04:41:13 pm
Some of these surveys are so poorly written. I get survey questions a lot that I can't answer honestly, such as "What type of cancer have you been diagnosed with?". Well I haven't been diagnosed with cancer, and there is no "None of the above" option. Or sometimes the pre-qual question will be "What's your annual household income range?" and the answer choices will be "dog, cat, hamster, ..."

So what do you do when these questions come up? Just pick any answer, or quit out of the survey and forfeit the DQ$?
Good point.I do both.Sometimes pick the closest answer even tho its not right.....or quit.I get a kick out of the what country do u live in question.I feel like saying Mars.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: annadote on May 25, 2018, 07:20:38 pm
I have noticed some demographic questions with typos and similar questions to the ones you specifically mentioned. Makes me wonder what this research is going to and how well thought out it was.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: renee10 on May 25, 2018, 10:13:26 pm
When I get those I close the survey window. Those aren't worth the time for me.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: annemillersworld on May 27, 2018, 04:31:40 pm
I like it when they ask if you had ever heard of brand A and even though you answer "no"  they ask you 10 more questions about Brand A.  It's frustrating.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: 1imaginarygirl on May 28, 2018, 07:04:46 am
I like it when they ask if you had ever heard of brand A and even though you answer "no"  they ask you 10 more questions about Brand A.  It's frustrating.

Yes, that is frustrating! I just took a survey about a local newspaper. Asked me if I read it in the past 30 days. No. Then it asked if I read it in the past 7 days. Um, obviously, no. Then it asked regardless of whether I read the paper or not, how useful is the content. Well if I've never read it, how would I know anything about the content?
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: berthabutt on May 29, 2018, 07:23:56 pm
when surveys are that poorly written I usually just quit them early on to save my mind the frustration.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: tuffys_daughtr on May 29, 2018, 08:10:06 pm
Yep, some of them are down right hilarious! And some of the tasks are down right ridiculous! Qualtric surveys always seem to be fairly well put together though I think.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: seesawing on May 29, 2018, 08:59:37 pm
I noticed that by the time you've completed your first 10K of offers you're ready to write your own surveys.  You could definitely rewrite or edit some of these surveys that are overloaded with questions that seem to ask the same question over and over, but each time it is written slightly different.  I've often wondered how does that happen?  The good thing is I'm finding fewer of these overblown surveys that simply take too much time to complete (and hoping they may have run their course by now).

P.S. Kudos to Qualtrics surveys -- the ones the university studies use as well as the political surveys.  They are well-formatted and easy to maneuver.     
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: minioncookies on May 30, 2018, 07:48:36 pm
Its not just poorly written some of the surveys just flat out need to be redone because I've seen busineses named in a few that went out of business ages ago
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: annemillersworld on May 31, 2018, 06:56:04 am
I noticed that by the time you've completed your first 10K of offers you're ready to write your own surveys.  You could definitely rewrite or edit some of these surveys that are overloaded with questions that seem to ask the same question over and over, but each time it is written slightly different.  I've often wondered how does that happen? 

I recently took a marketing class that actually encouraged you to re-ask questions slightly differently throughout a survey

It turns out people will respond differently based on the 2 questions asked just before
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: 1imaginarygirl on May 31, 2018, 07:05:09 am
I noticed that by the time you've completed your first 10K of offers you're ready to write your own surveys.  You could definitely rewrite or edit some of these surveys that are overloaded with questions that seem to ask the same question over and over, but each time it is written slightly different.  I've often wondered how does that happen?

I always thought those were trap questions.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: annemillersworld on May 31, 2018, 08:35:03 am
I noticed that by the time you've completed your first 10K of offers you're ready to write your own surveys.  You could definitely rewrite or edit some of these surveys that are overloaded with questions that seem to ask the same question over and over, but each time it is written slightly different.  I've often wondered how does that happen?

I always thought those were trap questions.

They call it market persuasion. When you answer the way they want, they have learned what message you respond to.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: seesawing on May 31, 2018, 12:54:05 pm
I noticed that by the time you've completed your first 10K of offers you're ready to write your own surveys.  You could definitely rewrite or edit some of these surveys that are overloaded with questions that seem to ask the same question over and over, but each time it is written slightly different.  I've often wondered how does that happen?

I always thought those were trap questions.

They call it market persuasion. When you answer the way they want, they have learned what message you respond to.

I appreciate your comments.  Your explanation sheds light on this.  I had an inkling that marketing classes might have something to do with survey writing as students began working in this field of study for the clients or survey companies we see here regularly.  However, this method of questioning can be exhaustive to the survey taker.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: jgw007 on May 31, 2018, 09:50:57 pm
I just close the survey and move on.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: UGetPaid on June 13, 2018, 12:24:17 pm
The way I see it, it is not a dishonest answer if the options they give you don't cover your circumstances. If it is just a qualifying question, I pick something to advance the survey if they don't give a "none of the above" option and I see where it takes me.  If the main survey winds up being about something I truly am not a part of, then I will close it.



I once took a survey where I did not recall clicking any gender demographic buttons. But when it ended up asking me specific personal questions about my menstrual cycle - with no option to say "none of the above", "I have no menstrual cycle" or "I am a man" - I chose to exit the survey rather than pick the "closest" answer.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: Christy_234rob on June 13, 2018, 08:23:36 pm
Yes, I will quit the survey in the middle of it if I don't like the questions. 
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: Ladygort on June 21, 2018, 06:53:07 am
I absolutely LOVE the 1 question survey for .25, 1 minute if that. Doesn't appear there is a right or wrong answer. you just get paid :)
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: mardukblood2009 on June 23, 2018, 11:06:14 pm
There is a lot of times that if I don't feel right about one, I just X out. I don't know how many times I fooled around with one for 15 or 20 minutes and then I just ended up getting kicked out. I try to avoid that anymore because there is always another survey.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: kaat1220 on June 24, 2018, 12:15:59 pm
On a different note, I did a task that was unfair and utterly ridiculous. It asked us which was the funniest made-up word in a batch of words.

Then, at the end, marked us off if it did not match THEIR opinion. I dropped to Level 2 doing that crap.

Some of these survey and task authors should not be writing the alphabet . . .
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: king4cash on June 25, 2018, 09:26:12 am
just pick a answer and hope it continues...
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: samijones02 on June 25, 2018, 04:07:07 pm
I usually just quit out of surveys if I can't answer them properly. I don't want to run the risk of it being a trap question and messing something up later on.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: heypeg on June 25, 2018, 05:13:54 pm
I have had that happen to me as well, frustrating.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: dsosnowski06 on June 25, 2018, 05:55:33 pm
I go back to the survey page and click on the survey again and then most of the time I get the DQ'd penny.  Works most of the time
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: bhdz on June 26, 2018, 11:30:21 am
The only thing I have seen is where there is no None of the above or Does not apply option. It does not happen too often, but I generally just do not continue with the survey.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: sherryfan on June 27, 2018, 11:31:20 am
I think you have to pick one in order to get a cent.
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: shasha2210 on July 06, 2018, 06:59:37 pm
yes
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: Ladygort on July 08, 2018, 10:06:48 am
It makes me laugh when I see one that has all kinds of spelling errors.  I also always get dq from one that has options once, twice or thrice..what is thrice?
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: nannycoe1 on July 10, 2018, 05:42:16 am
I usually just pick one because I get disqualified anyway
Title: Re: Questions with no right answers
Post by: bjmenk on July 11, 2018, 06:13:12 pm
I usually "x" out of the survey... I had one today that wasn't advertised as a Diabetes study ask which type of Diabetes I had. Only gave me two answer options.... TYPE 1 or Type 2, so I closed out.