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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 89 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Technically theres always a bias of the most amusing answer so the "no" would be close to 5% at a minimum.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

That was an amazing read, thanks!

[–] MBM 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oof I didn't know that was a Scott Alexander thing

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago

Why oof? O.o

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

0.2% of surveys get some kind of 0.2% response, especially if the survey is about statistics.

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

that's not how it works. That's not how anything works!

Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 12 points 6 months ago

Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It's also been shown that people often are bad a reporting accurately. So, your results may not be accurate just from that.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 33 points 6 months ago

Or some portion of people generally prefer throwing surveys in the trash, but for unknown reasons decided to complete that one.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

At least 0.2% lied.

[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Or they retrieved the survey from the bin, after tossing the former into the latter.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago

You won't get any customer complaints if you make it impossible for customers to contact you in the first place.

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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

0.2% margin of error.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I think it's safe to assume if they didn't respond they do not love responding to surveys.

[–] moody 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's almost like that's the joke presented in comic form.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's the real answer. 500 responses vs how many sent out

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe. But if there were 10000 sent and 500 responses, that still isn't enough information. You would need to know how many were even handled and perceived by the intended recipient.

But maybe you can work around this by canvasing in person rather than fire and forget.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 6 months ago

Also there's at least a small set of respondents with fat fingers.

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The MNAR crowd knows what’s going on in that survey amiright?