Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It's baffling. This is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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Where i live, none of the forms to apply for a flat ask only allowed questions. The respective agency even provides a summary, what questions are not allowed (like gender, religion) because discrimination potential but all ask at least two of them.
What do you do?
I once reported a big management company but nothing came out of it.
By not having "None of the above" or an "Other" allowing you to fill in the blank, instantly discards this data as viable. which makes this question pointless to even answer, let alone ask.
I think they shot themselves in the foot, one thing thats worse than no data is wrong data. And they are forcing people to produce wrong data.
Choose every option.
The questionaire is kinda badly made but also i would choose snapchat because for some reason everyone i know uses it.
Didn't even have Reddit lmao
They sabotaged themselves years ago by squashing popular votes with an algorithm, so a large amount of people don't realize the size of the site.
You can go look at recent popular tweets and see 200k reactions, meanwhile the top posts on reddit show 10-30k votes, despite having 2-50 times as many behind the scenes.
how the hell someone can use pinterest for more than one hour a week? Just accidentally browse it when trying to search an image on the web and curse the ux team to have hidden the download button in a way that you click the image and brings you in a completely unrelated site with 10000 images except the one you wanted
closes questionnaire
Why bother taking the survey then, or is it somehow mandatory?
Lol tell them you use Pinterest.
i still don't understand what the point of that site is, is it literally just made-up SEO spam that they managed to convince people is even slightly organic?
What the what? There is no "none of these" choice? In that case I'd check them all. And in the next screen when they ask how many hours for each, put 100 hours for each of them.
I have never had an account on any of those, did have a very long run on Reddit and a couple of interest-specific communities.
Who is Pinterest really for?
Interior designers
Home decor.. Or really interiors?
I can see artists, graphics and maybe UI designers regularly using it too.
Doesn’t matter anymore, it’s like 90% ai slop now.
Mostly just older moms and people into arts and crafts. My mom used it for a while and i would get some fairly outdated memes from Pinterest. She and Dad mostly just use Facebook nowdays though.
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I’d just abandon it if I couldn’t answer a question or it was too involved (like a free text box answer).
Which is why proper survey design never allows for this.
Wow. I can honestly say I spend less than an hour a week on all of those. I wasn't expecting that.
I can honestly say I have spent less than an hour in my life on all of those added together. Probably less than 10 minutes. Does that mean I am winning?
It does, in fact.
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That's objectively poor survey design. For questions like that there should always be an 'Other' option. There should also be a 'None' or 'N/A' option.
A radio presenter this morning was talking like we all have Instagram, I found that incredibly annoying.
Pixelfed?
That’s what I’m on. I need to take all the picture off my Instagram.
I tried to use it, but honestly without an algorithm, it's simply an empty page. And I don't want to follow hashtags, since there's usually too much semi-relevant garbage linked to those. So either I have a curated feed of only the people I follow, which gets boring, or I got nothing at all.
You can follow other people. My Pixelfed isn’t empty.
Yeah I follow all 3 people I know that use it. Hooray.
Oh, I follow people who have content I like. I’m using purely as a photographic content thing, which I thought it, and Instagram originally, were for.
I kind of like the boring aspects of it. I scroll through the feed to the end of new stuff, and then i’m done for the day. It’s a bit like I treat emails. I do miss the inspo of the sewing and knitting community of instagram, though.
There are 2 billion MAUs on there. We are the weird ones.
According to Instagram
Not to mention one person having multiple accounts for different purposes and business accounts. Instagram is big, no doubt, but not 2 billion users big
And how many are bots?
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I would get discord, youtube, lemmy, and reddit
I try to avoid new platforms tho bc I don't trust myself not to get addicted and social media already takes up too much of my time
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All they need to do is put YouTube on there for a more meaningful survey.
I hate that "social media" is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. "Social networking site" is great, straightforward and descriptive. But "social media" encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for "traditional media" which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!
All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I'm too young to be this mad about it.
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Username checks out?
None of the above?
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