... with a survey.
This is a survey of The Media and your spending habits, which is being done as informal research pursuant to the writing of what will prove to be a very interesting book on a very interesting topic. Please take the survey and then pass on the link to EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!11!!
Thanks.
Survey is HERE.
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When people raise questions about the mysterious 1997 survey, Lott's standard line of defence is:
Tim Lambert's questions:
[Note: This was an attachement to a Nov 17 posting to firearmsregprof on Nov 17. My comments are in italics like this. TL]
In a report on a climate change seminar, Bernd Ströher and Benny Peiser write:
I would like to watch a movie with george west eating beans!
Done! Now, do get a free "Video Professor" set or something?
One problem the survey has is that the last quest has no categories for retired or for unemployed (intentionally or not). Also why is "Upkeep of your home" a category of What type of work one does?
Question 1 has NO mention of any kind of print media, which for me is a primary source.
Also, I expected to be able to at least vote FOR atheism, or at least "No" to a God question! :)
Keep the critiques coming! I'll be sure to pass them on to the survey purveyor.
I echo comments 3 & 4. I suspect that "upkeep of your home" might have been a way to avoid the omnipresent but obnoxious "homemaker?" (Altho it sounds more like something pertinent to Home Depot devotees...)
As an erstwhile "mother at home," I like the "caring for your children at home" option (frequently, only "homemaker" is available on such lists, but that implies far too much Martha Stuart for me), though I would prefer a simple choice of "Parenting." (I still spend a greater chunk of time than I would have thought doing the same for my legally adult, more or less out-of-the-house children!)
Since "unemployed" is not an option, the people who constructed this survey are clearly out of touch with reality.
llewelly: Actually, the person who constructed this form is way more connected with reality than almost anyone I know.
I wonder if the idea is that several of these categories would describe a non-employed person, and she does not want "unemployed" as the only category someone checks. Or, maybe this could be better worded. I am not privy to the exact purpose of the survey.
Another thing that's missing from the last question: school/college/university.