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Posted on: December 10, 2009 10:33 AM, by Greg Laden
... 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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Comments
I would like to watch a movie with george west eating beans!
Posted by: becca | December 10, 2009 11:32 AM
Done! Now, do get a free "Video Professor" set or something?
Posted by: Larian LeQuella | December 10, 2009 1:09 PM
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?
Posted by: NewEnglandBob | December 10, 2009 2:55 PM
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! :)
Posted by: J-Dog | December 10, 2009 5:44 PM
Keep the critiques coming! I'll be sure to pass them on to the survey purveyor.
Posted by: Greg Laden | December 10, 2009 6:20 PM
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!)
Posted by: Diane G. | December 10, 2009 7:19 PM
Posted by: llewelly | December 10, 2009 8:59 PM
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.
Posted by: Greg Laden | December 10, 2009 9:07 PM
Another thing that's missing from the last question: school/college/university.
Posted by: AnonCoward23 | December 11, 2009 5:02 AM