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Joined November 2017
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We love a @BadSurveyQ. How is this a single select?
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O livro do Felipe Nunes afirma que 71% dos Brasileiros consideram que a homossexualidade não é justificável. Esse dado é falso. Além do problema apontado pelo @WeiseFranklin de como os dados foram mal consolidados, mesmo a pesquisa original tem um defeito importante. O World Values Survey pede para o entrevistado avaliar a homossexualidade numa escala que vai de “nunca justificável” a “sempre justificável”. Mas justificável em que sentido? Até uma pessoa que considere a homossexualidade aceitável poderia achar que ela não é “justificável” no sentido de que ela não precisa ser justificada para ninguém. Há um problema claro na formulação da pergunta em português que pode ou não existir em outras línguas. Em Março de 26, o Pew Research Center publicou uma pesquisa muito mais sólida: os entrevistados respondiam se a homossexualidade era moralmente aceitável, moralmente inaceitável ou se não era uma questão moral. E 69% dos Brasileiros consideraram que homossexualidade NÃO é moralmente inaceitável! Estamos mais bem colocados que países como EUA, Coreia do Sul, Polônia ou Israel.
O Macedo cita aqui o livro "O Brasil no Espelho", de Felipe Nunes, e gostaria de me ater a este trecho: "71% das pessoas (no Brasil) disseram que a homossexualidade não é justificável" Chequei a fonte e vi que não é exatamente isto. O questionário não é binário (justificável/não justificável), mas permite respostas numa escala de concordância de 0 (nunca justificável) a 10 (sempre justificável). O autor optou em somar as respostas entre o grau de concordância 7 e 10 (sem mencionar isto). E considerou o que fica entre 0 e 6 como "não justificável". A meu ver, é falta de rigor com a fonte - e que muda a percepção do leitor.
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That’s a really interesting set of response options 🤔
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Replying to @BritishGas
@BritishGas Booking a service via WhatsApp was quite easy but… How did this survey question pass testing before release? A numerical scale but answer with a letter? Use the first 5 letters of the alphabet but A=5? The scale starts at V diff & descends to V easy? @BadSurveyQ 👋🏻
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We’re now on the other app under the same username! There’s no content but we can work on that together.
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Hey @BadSurveyQ, we need you on the other website!
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This is an wild over read into this data. Of course most want a settlement, the alternatives are perpetual war or one of the countries not existing.
Anyone positing that Trump is playing to a tiny bubble of MAGA on X on the Ukraine issue isn't keeping up.
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Errr, are they really using a continuous needle in a Yes/No question? 🤔 Yet another case for @BadSurveyQ !
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Somehow I don’t think they thought through the type of products Andrex do when they asked this question… unless people are saving it for special occasions or gifting it 🤷‍♀️
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EBay apparently wanting to know whether I'm the kind of person who buys clothes online 45584 times a year, or just 45421. @BadSurveyQ @EBay_UK, you might want to check your customer surveys:
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Survey question from the @RoyalStatSoc Medical Section @BadSurveyQ
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“Here's 2 things. Tell us if you prefer the one on the left by clicking on the right or the one on the right by clicking on the left.” — @BadSurveyQ from eBay.
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So that later in my survey where I use a different measure that has 1 = low and 5 = high my survey will look even better by contrast, then, just to crush participants spirits, we ask them to enter their phone number for a follow-on survey using a slider input:
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Who the fuck are the 25% of people who think having a work meeting with the opposite sex is inappropriate
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Just stumbled upon what might be the spiciest political survey question ever.
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this poll question is absolutely risible
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I think the text fills have gone awry… unless 2024 has suddenly passed me by!
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textbook @BadSurveyQ
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I was shocked by the outbursts of antisemitism after Oct 7th, but this type of question is worse than useless in trying to figure things out: teapaw.org/saletan/status/1736058…
In the new Harvard/Harris poll, 67% of respondents aged 18-24 agree that "Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors." Consistent with other polls that have found relatively high anti-Jewish sentiment among young American adults. harvardharrispoll.com/wp-con…
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Not just @BadSurveyQ, but bad survey design as a whole, and bad use of polling
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