Gees, I Hate That Question

[Oceangirl]

I recently joined a survey company (one of the top ten) and one survey question had a list of survey companies for which I was asked to tell which I belong to. I don't feel this is any of their business but I chose 3. Your thoughts on this?

[meandn]

I feel the same way, Ocean! I have been doing this so many years now that I have finally decided to either put none or just put one or two. I feel that they ask because they want to know if you are a "professional" survey taker (in their minds!) because you are part of many survey sites. It is my guess that if you listed many sites, they would subsequently not send you very many, if any, surveys! They probably think that you would just answer surveys by rote and not really give them an honest opinion. I always put my best into all surveys I take and feel that because I do, it doesn't matter HOW MANY survey companies I belong to and I don't want them to make their decision about me based on their narrow view. If you give thoughtful, balanced opinions, they will continue to send you more and more survey opportunities as time passes. On the other hand, if you just whiz through them and answer without much thought, it doesn't take them long to stop sending you anything! The software they use lets them know how long a survey should take to completed, so they can weed out the slackers pretty darn quick! So keep on telling them only a few and then give them your best, and you will be doing the right thing, in my opinion. Over the years, I have treated survey-taking as a part-time job, so I give it my best as I would for any job I had, and I do pretty well with cash and gift cards and points for gifts, and you can too! :thumbsup:

[Oceangirl]

I, too, give it my all on surveys....sometimes to the point I know I'm going to be rejected. I don't care about that. I'm being honest.

[pepper60]

I usually put none or leave that question blank if they allow it.
Perhaps they are tracking who their competition is. But I feel
it's none of their business.

There's also the screener question about have you taken a survey
in the last 3 or 6 months about....and then they give some choices
of subjects. Sometimes one of the choices is "any other survey" and
I will check that one. Frankly, I don't remember them all anyway.

AND, then there's the separate question in a lot of surveys about
whether you are Hispanic or not. Then the next questions asks
what your ethnic background is. If there is a comment area in a survey
I let them know I feel asking a spearate question about whether a
person is Hispanic or not is descriminatory and shame on them.
Why don't they ask separate questions about whether a person is
Polish, German, Japanese, Eskimo, Norwegian, Chinese, etc.????

[Raiderchic29]

Well at least I was not the only one wondering about the "odd" questions and I too never understood the Hispanic question and then the background question. WHY?? If you want people's honest opinion it should not matter. i dunno

[Kelly]

i have had surveys ask me how many other survey companies i belong to. i put none. it's none of their business. but i have never had them ask who the survey companies werei dunno