FairWeather
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Usually by hiding what they’re actually interested in by mixing in a lot of varied, redundant but seemingly unrelated, questions.One does wonder how they got anyone to respond to that survey.
If you cut straight to the chase and ask do you own a gun and have a small , no one is going to answer that very honestly. So you hide those more “private” questions under the guise of health related questions. The gun ownership questions are usually pretty straightforward and kept so brief that by the end it seemed completely insignificant.
I got my degree in social science, and I volunteer for a lot of surveys to help folks gather data for their research. From my experience, that’s typically how this stuff works. You don’t want to let on to the respondents what you’re researching, because then they’ll alter their answers to skew the data or respond with what they think you want to hear.
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