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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 261 points 3 weeks ago

That's objectively poor survey design. For questions like that there should always be an 'Other' option. There should also be a 'None' or 'N/A' option.

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 128 points 3 weeks ago

A radio presenter this morning was talking like we all have Instagram, I found that incredibly annoying.

[-] Tyoda@lemm.ee 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 57 points 3 weeks ago
[-] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 50 points 3 weeks ago

Not to mention one person having multiple accounts for different purposes and business accounts. Instagram is big, no doubt, but not 2 billion users big

[-] Impleader@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

And how many are bots?

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, just for my roommate ages back there's her, her dog, the creepy person stealing the pictures of her dog and making an account based on that

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

I first questioned why two billion cats have Instagram accounts, then realized there can't be 2 billion Egyptian Maus in all the world, much less on Instagram.

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[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

I’m fine with being weird, my beef is the presumption that everyone has Instagram.

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[-] bamboo 46 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed, the only way this would be acceptable if this was in an application for a Social Media manager position?

[-] TherapyGary 23 points 3 weeks ago

I complained in the "other" box that they did include for a different question lol

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵

[-] icedterminal@lemmy.world 79 points 3 weeks ago

By not having "None of the above" or an "Other" allowing you to fill in the blank, instantly discards this data as viable. which makes this question pointless to even answer, let alone ask.

[-] EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think they shot themselves in the foot, one thing thats worse than no data is wrong data. And they are forcing people to produce wrong data.

[-] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Choose every option.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It's baffling. This post is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Where i live, none of the forms to apply for a flat ask only allowed questions. The respective agency even provides a summary, what questions are not allowed (like gender, religion) because discrimination potential but all ask at least two of them.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago

Pinterest. They're like half of google results.

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 49 points 3 weeks ago

And I never understood how to use it. If I click on a Google result from Pinterest I'm always taken to something completely different.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Oh good. I'm not the only one.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 19 points 3 weeks ago

far from it.

its a dysfunctional link aggregator. their entire business model is consolidation of other people's web content. make a FUCKING ACCOUNT IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PHOTOS BRAIDED LEATHER WRISTBANDS

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Or maybe google shouldn't include spam in its results.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

If you use kagi you can just permanently block Pinterest. And any other site you want. Or rank their listings lower.

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago

Wow. I can honestly say I spend less than an hour a week on all of those. I wasn't expecting that.

[-] III@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I can honestly say I have spent less than an hour in my life on all of those added together. Probably less than 10 minutes. Does that mean I am winning?

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[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

All they need to do is put YouTube on there for a more meaningful survey.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

I hate that "social media" is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. "Social networking site" is great, straightforward and descriptive. But "social media" encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for "traditional media" which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!

All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I'm too young to be this mad about it.

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[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 weeks ago

Think of it as giving them bad data.

[-] pipes@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago

I'm exclusively on Pinterest 100hours/week. (I forgot to close the tab with the image search for cool origami)

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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No one will like hearing this answer but they may already understand the issue of it being bad data and have a good reason not to care.

Here’s the thing. When “none” or “skip” is there, people gravitate toward it. You end up getting 75% of people saying “none” for every question, and then your entire survey is meaningless. I hate surveys too. Everyone hates them. All the more reason to just mash “skip” or “none.” Because fuck you and fuck your survey.

Meanwhile, what % of people don’t touch any of these social networks? Maybe we can’t say for sure, but it’s way less than 75%.

So you’re choosing between two possible sources of bad data, and choosing the one you know to be of lower magnitude.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 3 weeks ago

Then provide an "other" option with a text box instead.
Make entering some text mandatory if you click it.
No one gravitates toward that.
Besides, a "none" option can just be discarded when you analyze the data.
If all your boxes are social media sites, you have no idea which ones are poisoned by bad data, and by how much.

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What the what? There is no "none of these" choice? In that case I'd check them all. And in the next screen when they ask how many hours for each, put 100 hours for each of them.

I have never had an account on any of those, did have a very long run on Reddit and a couple of interest-specific communities.

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[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago

Didn't even have Reddit lmao

[-] mriswith@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They sabotaged themselves years ago by squashing popular votes with an algorithm, so a large amount of people don't realize the size of the site.

You can go look at recent popular tweets and see 200k reactions, meanwhile the top posts on reddit show 10-30k votes, despite having 2-50 times as many behind the scenes.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

how the hell someone can use pinterest for more than one hour a week? Just accidentally browse it when trying to search an image on the web and curse the ux team to have hidden the download button in a way that you click the image and brings you in a completely unrelated site with 10000 images except the one you wanted

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[-] Lanske@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

None of the above?

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

I would get discord, youtube, lemmy, and reddit

I try to avoid new platforms tho bc I don't trust myself not to get addicted and social media already takes up too much of my time

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closes questionnaire

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 3 weeks ago

I’d just abandon it if I couldn’t answer a question or it was too involved (like a free text box answer).

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[-] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Choose at least one option? I don't use any of those platforms. My only social media is Lemmy and Reddit.

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