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Mine for the day was how do you like shopping the pharmacy dept at Kohl's?Apparently who ever dreamt up this survey doesn't know that Kohl's doesn't even have a pharmacy dept.Plus it was a grids survey of about 1000 different questions(felt like),so it was very annoying to have to answer "no" to questions about their pharmacy dept..

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Sorry but I don't want to take up all the hard drive space on this forum trying to answer this question lol!

I should note these as they come along as at the moment I'm hard pressed to come up with one off the top of my head but I'll come back here and put some in as I do some future surveys.

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Yeah, that is definitely a fun question, but I agree with JD: I've seen dozens, I write them down in a temp file in case the survey allows us to point out the stupidity at the end, to help them next time. If it does, I copy-paste the issue I wrote down there, then I toss it. In the future, I will also make sure to post the particularly ridiculous ones here, too. I've definitely seen a few like that, asking me to quantify how good a particular company or organization is at doing some particular thing that it 100% doesn't do at all, but I can't remember any specifics, unfortunately. I would bet those types of surveys, what they're doing is probably that they only care about one or two of the organizations in the list, then they just randomly throw in a bunch more to keep us off the trail (and waste our time...), without thinking about whether they actually fit. :P

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I think some of the regular sounding ones are the dumbest they give us... for instance

"have you done a movie survey in the past 2 months"..

if you click yes you get disqualified

no one would reach cash out if we all answered that honestly..

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I think some of the regular sounding ones are the dumbest they give us... for instance

"have you done a movie survey in the past 2 months"..

if you click yes you get disqualified

no one would reach cash out if we all answered that honestly..

LOL I always answer no. I know I will get disqualified if I answer yes. I don't know why they do this.

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which of these 75 products have you heard of..

which of these 75 products have you ever purchased...

which of these 75 products have you purchased in the past 3 months...

which of these 75 products have you actually 'eaten' in the past 3 months...

which of these 75 products will you buy in the future?....

if these products were to become a person, what would they be like out of these 25 characteristics...

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or the speech on ethics at the beginning of some surveys.. we're expected to maintain quality when they nickle and dime us out of what we're worth..

I agree - do not preach to me if you are not going to treat me fairly.

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which of these 75 products have you heard of..

which of these 75 products have you ever purchased...

which of these 75 products have you purchased in the past 3 months...

which of these 75 products have you actually 'eaten' in the past 3 months...

which of these 75 products will you buy in the future?....

if these products were to become a person, what would they be like out of these 25 characteristics...

Bahahaha!!! Yes, I had to learn that one the hard way. Don't answer!

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Oh yeah, I just ran into an instance of the other class of idiotic questions: the type of question that assumes that you have somehow already been vetted for the incredibly specific survey they're running, that you haven't actually been vetted for. In this case, the question at the very beginning of the survey, "how many packages does your company ship a week?", without asking what my job entailed or whether I would have even the foggiest idea how many packages my company ships a week. I don't work in the mailroom, how would I know? So I just said 0, I figured (correctly) that that would screen me out; the worst are surveys where they ask something stupid like that, you know you've been screened out, but they ask you like 20 more questions first anyway. (Got lucky this time.)

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Oh yeah, I just ran into an instance of the other class of idiotic questions: the type of question that assumes that you have somehow already been vetted for the incredibly specific survey they're running, that you haven't actually been vetted for. In this case, the question at the very beginning of the survey, "how many packages does your company ship a week?", without asking what my job entailed or whether I would have even the foggiest idea how many packages my company ships a week. I don't work in the mailroom, how would I know? So I just said 0, I figured (correctly) that that would screen me out; the worst are surveys where they ask something stupid like that, you know you've been screened out, but they ask you like 20 more questions first anyway. (Got lucky this time.)

I started this in another thread -here was what happened to me it was almost like your experience

GTM I'm Male-I'm 56, I have no internet-plus I'm Asian (which I am none of,and how can I do a survey if I have no internet?)

Oh did I forget to mention I first put I'm of Hispanic decent too?This was what was asked when taking a survey for GTM.And the heck of it was they still kept asking me questions.There was no survey number in the url and it was a mysurvey survey which equaled to "No way in hell I'm doing your survey". After the 5th question which was "what tv stations do I watch ",I exited out.To me they were not looking for qualified responses or I would have been kicked out immediately.

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OpinionOutpost's endless pre-survey questions given to make our 'experience' more positive.. I swear i've gone through at least two batteries in my mouse on clicking which magazine's I don't read..

"The Excellent Prismatic Spray"

really? if i've read The Excellent Prismatic Spray magazine there is a real survey on it in my future??

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OpinionOutpost's endless pre-survey questions given to make our 'experience' more positive.. I swear i've gone through at least two batteries in my mouse on clicking which magazine's I don't read..

"The Excellent Prismatic Spray"

really? if i've read The Excellent Prismatic Spray magazine there is a real survey on it in my future??

What a name for a magazine-I'm even afraid to Google that one you never know what may pop up......................

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