{"id":70,"date":"2010-03-28T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T07:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vk6hgr.echidna.id.au\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2010-03-28T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T07:42:31","slug":"skewing-the-results-of-a-survey-before-the-results-even-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Skewing the results of a survey before the results even arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Perthnow\/Sunday Times<\/a> website is promoting “WA’s biggest law and order survey”<\/a>. Questions on police, justice, road laws, bikie gangs and that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you’re even willing to ignore the unanswerable question 31, “Do you view bikie gangs as social clubs or as
\nconduits for organised crime? (tick one box)<\/p>\n

Yes No Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know”<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/em><\/p>\n

Have a look at the instructions at the bottom of the page for returning the survey: “Please return your
\ncompleted survey (no stamp required) to: (address)”
\n<\/strong>
\nOkay. So a survey on law and order published on the Sunday Times’ website, links to a PDF file that has to be printed out<\/em> and mailed in!<\/em> Who, under the age of about 40 has posted a letter<\/strong><\/em> in the last 5 years?!<\/p>\n

Is this survey actually targeting the opinion of a broad range of Perth citizens or is it only for those of a certain demographic? Sunday Times, put your survey online. Post it on Twitter and Facebook. Give a chance to include the opinions of us who see posting a paper letter in this day and age as anachronistic and absurd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Perthnow\/Sunday Times website is promoting “WA’s biggest law and order survey”. Questions on police, justice, road laws, bikie gangs and that sort of thing. Perhaps you’re even willing to ignore the unanswerable question 31, “Do you view bikie gangs as social clubs or as conduits for organised crime? (tick one box) Yes No Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t … Continue reading “Skewing the results of a survey before the results even arrive”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}