Bad Survey Question

On the hunt for the best examples of bad (or just downright odd!) survey questions! #badsurveyquestion

[Tom Berry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @tomeberry]

@BritishGas Booking a service via WhatsApp was quite easy but… How did this survey question pass testing before release? A numerical scale but answer with a letter? Use the first 5 letters of the alphabet but A=5? The scale starts at V diff & descends to V easy? @BadSurveyQ 👋🏻

[Bad Survey Question @BadSurveyQ]

We’re now on the other app under the same username! There’s no content but we can work on that together.

[Raphael Nishimura @rnishimura]

Hey @BadSurveyQ, we need you on the other website!

[Jake Rubinstein @Jlrube]

This is an wild over read into this data.

Of course most want a settlement, the alternatives are perpetual war or one of the countries not existing.

[Raphael Nishimura @rnishimura]

Errr, are they really using a continuous needle in a Yes/No question? 🤔
Yet another case for @BadSurveyQ !

[Bad Survey Question @BadSurveyQ]

Somehow I don’t think they thought through the type of products Andrex do when they asked this question… unless people are saving it for special occasions or gifting it 🤷‍♀️

[“Smylers” @Smylers2]

EBay apparently wanting to know whether I'm the kind of person who buys clothes online 45584 times a year, or just 45421. @BadSurveyQ

@EBay_UK, you might want to check your customer surveys:

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

Survey question from the @RoyalStatSoc Medical Section @BadSurveyQ

[“Smylers” @Smylers2]

“Here's 2 things. Tell us if you prefer the one on the left by clicking on the right or the one on the right by clicking on the left.” — @BadSurveyQ from eBay.

[AJ Thurston, PhD @AJThurston]

@BrentWRoberts So that later in my survey where I use a different measure that has 1 = low and 5 = high my survey will look even better by contrast, then, just to crush participants spirits, we ask them to enter their phone number for a follow-on survey using a slider input:

[Limelihood ⏸️ Function 🔸🔸🔸 @StatsLime]

Who the fuck are the 25% of people who think having a work meeting with the opposite sex is inappropriate

[Semih Çakır @mascakir]

Just stumbled upon what might be the spiciest political survey question ever.

[Adam Payne @adampayne26]

this poll question is absolutely risible

[Bad Survey Question @BadSurveyQ]

I think the text fills have gone awry… unless 2024 has suddenly passed me by!

[Jake Rubinstein @Jlrube]

textbook @BadSurveyQ

[Stephen Wild @stephenjwild]

@rnishimura @BadSurveyQ I was shocked by the outbursts of antisemitism after Oct 7th, but this type of question is worse than useless in trying to figure things out:

https://t.co/asFAj2RKvm

[Raphael Nishimura @rnishimura]

Not just @BadSurveyQ, but bad survey design as a whole, and bad use of polling

[Bad Survey Question @BadSurveyQ]

Have fun #goodsurveyquestion people 😉

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

Should public polling be declared illegal as propaganda and election interference?

[Charlene J. Stainfield @cjstainfield]

@BadSurveyQ 👀

[Margie Omero @MargieOmero]

Do you want to write a good question about abortion or do you want to just do whatever?