And The Survey Sez .. !

The people at Seed Media Group have designed a survey for the readers of ScienceBlogs in an effort to learn more about what you think we can do to raise science literacy. The survey should take roughly 20 minutes and they anticipate several thousand responses. As a small reward for your time, Seed Media Group is giving away several items in a random drawing; an iPhone 3G, a MacBook Air and a 40GB Apple TV. Of course, I am not eligible, so I am hoping all of the prizes are won by my readers!

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I know that a couple of you have completed Seed Media's ScienceBlogs Reader Survey, but they need to hear from more of you. The linked survey takes only twenty minutes of your life to complete, and everyone (except me, boo!) who completes the survey will be added to a drawing for prizes: an iPhone…
Dear Reader, We launched Seed and ScienceBlogs because we believe that science can change the world and science literacy is how we get there. In the pages of our magazine we've tried to capture the ideas and issues fueling this cultural shift. Online we've aimed to foster a lively and spirited…
Our Seed Overlords have bling to give away. All you have to do is take a survey and they might give you an iPhone 3G, a MacBook Air and a 40GB Apple TV. Keep the Air and give me the rest if you win. Don't tell the Overlords though. They might make me give it back. C'mon. The odds are much better…
A Screensaver of moving dots. Sure you can see it, but can you hear it? [Mo at Neurophilosophy] What do you think is the sate of science? More important, do you like iPhone 3G, MacBook Air or 40GB Apple TV? Take this Seed/Sb survey. Family is all one has got. That goes for all primates. Photos of…

The problem with radio buttons is that there isn't one for "Well, depending on which meaning you take, then under certain circumstances, I REALLY STRONGLY agree; under other conditions, I probably agree most of the time, and if you mean the thing I think you might not but is not precluded by the wording, then I mostly disagree, but sometimes I just wouldn't care, and anyway I'm getting bored with this."

Or maybe I overthink these things...

A "neutral" or "Neither agree nor disagree" button would have made my responses more accurate on several questions.

Yogi-one, they leave that choice out on purpose, to force a response one way or another. I kind of resent it but I've been on the survey-giving side, so I at least understand why they do it.

By speedwell (not verified) on 04 Aug 2008 #permalink