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Thank you to all one thousand five hundred and fifty-eight of you (what the hell?) for taking my stupid-ass survey!
The results, as of July 12, 6:13 PM PDT (-7), are as follows:
For a shitpost of a survey, there's actually a fair amount to take note of here. Here are a handful of concerns:
- Selection bias — as some commenters pointed out, responses to this survey come from people who: (a) use Reddit; (b) browse /r/samplesize; and (c) chose to click on my survey. Given that it would be silly to click on a survey that you don't at least have some intention of taking, this likely skews results towards 'yes'.
- Bouncers — it's highly likely that some people clicked on the survey link but then closed out of the tab without actually responding. In a perfect world, these people should probably be grouped in with the 'no' folk. However, they instead go completely under the radar because Google forms does not track views. This skews the results towards 'yes'.
- Dupes — the survey does not prevent a single user from answering multiple times, and does not track if multiple answers come from the same person. Given this allowance, I expect that some people took the survey multiple times; my intuition is that the most common case was first answering 'yes' and then going back and answering 'no'. This skews the results towards 'no'.
At the end of it all, this survey probably does not provide useful data regarding what percentage of people are willing to take a one-question survey. However, I think it gave some of you a nice chuckle, and that was really the goal to begin with ;-)
Speaking of which, I want to mention that the idea of this survey was not originally mine. Unfortunately, I do not know where I first heard about it, so I cannot give them due credit.