January 25, 2002

  • Surveys suck. Statistically speaking. The first major disadvantage is that response rate is usually rather low. The second major problem is that the response itself may be self-selecting, i.e., peeps who face providing a true but socially-judged undesirable response may opt not to respond at all leaving those participating with a true and socially-judged desirable response over-represented. Finally, some respondents do not provide accurate answers. Many inaccurate responses are due to people swayed by social desirability, that is, they tend to give answers they think are socially preferable even if untrue. Another major source of intentionally inaccurate responses are survey gremlins-peeps who purposely give outrageously wrong responses just to screw the survey's accuracy and reliability. Given all that, why bother? Because the information is generally easy to gather and tabulate, economical to collect, and immediately informative.


    notforprophet's passively collected
    Age of Xangaroo Member Survey:


    (Keep in mind that this is only one sample of the Xangan population as described in the Source info down below.)


     








































     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


    Age

    13-17

    18-24

    25-34

    35-44

    45-54

    55-64

    65-74

    75-84

    85-94

    95+


    #

    343

    530

    119

    34

    17

    2

    0

    1

    4

    13


     

    So it can be seen that about 50% of those Xangans reporting their ages are in the (18-24) age group and females in this same age group (data not shown) represent about 28% of all Xangans. Also, about 82% of all peeps report an age of less than 25.

     

    So what sucks more: surveys or breast-feeding babies (=peeps less than age 25? ) ?

     

    Source: Xanga Member Search for sites updated on 01/24/2002 before 4 PM

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