Questions with no right answers

[1imaginarygirl]

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$?

[gwilson31]

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) ?? 

[NRAJOE]

Pick one....usually get dq'd anyways...

[hitch0403]

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.

[annadote]

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.

[renee10]

When I get those I close the survey window. Those aren't worth the time for me.

[annemillersworld]

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.

[1imaginarygirl]

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?

[berthabutt]

when surveys are that poorly written I usually just quit them early on to save my mind the frustration.

[tuffys_daughtr]

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.

[seesawing]

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.     

[minioncookies]

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

[annemillersworld]

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

[1imaginarygirl]

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.

[annemillersworld]

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.