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A new one for the #PoorUX experience which I've not seen before. This is #Qualtrics who are doing a survey for #VanguardUK

Yup, they're asking for a "positive or negative numeric value" but not accepting "+4" because of the "+".

A new one for the #PoorUX experience which I've not seen before. This is #Qualtrics who are doing a survey for #VanguardUK

Yup, they're asking for a "positive or negative numeric value" but not accepting "+4" because of the "+".

A new one for the #PoorUX experience which I've not seen before. This is #Qualtrics who are doing a survey for #VanguardUK

Yup, they're asking for a "positive or negative numeric value" but not accepting "+4" because of the "+".

A new one for the #PoorUX experience which I've not seen before. This is #Qualtrics who are doing a survey for #VanguardUK

Yup, they're asking for a "positive or negative numeric value" but not accepting "+4" because of the "+".

A new one for the #PoorUX experience which I've not seen before. This is #Qualtrics who are doing a survey for #VanguardUK

Yup, they're asking for a "positive or negative numeric value" but not accepting "+4" because of the "+".

#DigitalIndependence #diday for #SocialScience #researchers:

#Rstats #Jamovi #Python <-- #SPSS #Stata

#LibreOffice #LaTeX #Typst editors #Gnumeric <-- #MicrosoftOffice

#CollaboraOnline <-- #GoogleDocs #GoogleWorkspace #Microsoft365

#Zotero <-- #Endnote #Mendeley #Citavi

#ODK #KoboToolbox #LimeSurvey <-- #Qualtrics #SurveyMonkey etc.

#requal #Taguette <-- #MaxQDA #AtlasTI #NVivo

#PoliticalScience #Economics #Statistics #Econometrics #QualitativeResearch #Evaluation #QuantitativeResearch

#DigitalIndependence #diday for #SocialScience #researchers:

#Rstats #Jamovi #Python <-- #SPSS #Stata

#LibreOffice #LaTeX #Typst editors #Gnumeric <-- #MicrosoftOffice

#CollaboraOnline <-- #GoogleDocs #GoogleWorkspace #Microsoft365

#Zotero <-- #Endnote #Mendeley #Citavi

#ODK #KoboToolbox #LimeSurvey <-- #Qualtrics #SurveyMonkey etc.

#requal #Taguette <-- #MaxQDA #AtlasTI #NVivo

#PoliticalScience #Economics #Statistics #Econometrics #QualitativeResearch #Evaluation #QuantitativeResearch

#DigitalIndependence #diday for #SocialScience #researchers:

#Rstats #Jamovi #Python <-- #SPSS #Stata

#LibreOffice #LaTeX #Typst editors #Gnumeric <-- #MicrosoftOffice

#CollaboraOnline <-- #GoogleDocs #GoogleWorkspace #Microsoft365

#Zotero <-- #Endnote #Mendeley #Citavi

#ODK #KoboToolbox #LimeSurvey <-- #Qualtrics #SurveyMonkey etc.

#requal #Taguette <-- #MaxQDA #AtlasTI #NVivo

#PoliticalScience #Economics #Statistics #Econometrics #QualitativeResearch #Evaluation #QuantitativeResearch

#DigitalIndependence #diday for #SocialScience #researchers:

#Rstats #Jamovi #Python <-- #SPSS #Stata

#LibreOffice #LaTeX #Typst editors #Gnumeric <-- #MicrosoftOffice

#CollaboraOnline <-- #GoogleDocs #GoogleWorkspace #Microsoft365

#Zotero <-- #Endnote #Mendeley #Citavi

#ODK #KoboToolbox #LimeSurvey <-- #Qualtrics #SurveyMonkey etc.

#requal #Taguette <-- #MaxQDA #AtlasTI #NVivo

#PoliticalScience #Economics #Statistics #Econometrics #QualitativeResearch #Evaluation #QuantitativeResearch

#DigitalIndependence #diday for #SocialScience #researchers:

#Rstats #Jamovi #Python <-- #SPSS #Stata

#LibreOffice #LaTeX #Typst editors #Gnumeric <-- #MicrosoftOffice

#CollaboraOnline <-- #GoogleDocs #GoogleWorkspace #Microsoft365

#Zotero <-- #Endnote #Mendeley #Citavi

#ODK #KoboToolbox #LimeSurvey <-- #Qualtrics #SurveyMonkey etc.

#requal #Taguette <-- #MaxQDA #AtlasTI #NVivo

#PoliticalScience #Economics #Statistics #Econometrics #QualitativeResearch #Evaluation #QuantitativeResearch

Para la gente del sitio web #QuéOpinas: tengo 3 mascotas. No una, no dos ni más de tres. Exactamente tres. ¿Qué hago? :thaenkin:

#VocêOpina #VoceOpina #VarsityPlaza #VarsityPlazaLLC #Qualtrics #SurveyTaking #Encuesta #Encuestas #Sondeo #Sondeos

Para la gente del sitio web #QuéOpinas: tengo 3 mascotas. No una, no dos ni más de tres. Exactamente tres. ¿Qué hago? :thaenkin:

#VocêOpina #VoceOpina #VarsityPlaza #VarsityPlazaLLC #Qualtrics #SurveyTaking #Encuesta #Encuestas #Sondeo #Sondeos

Para la gente del sitio web #QuéOpinas: tengo 3 mascotas. No una, no dos ni más de tres. Exactamente tres. ¿Qué hago? :thaenkin:

#VocêOpina #VoceOpina #VarsityPlaza #VarsityPlazaLLC #Qualtrics #SurveyTaking #Encuesta #Encuestas #Sondeo #Sondeos

Para la gente del sitio web #QuéOpinas: tengo 3 mascotas. No una, no dos ni más de tres. Exactamente tres. ¿Qué hago? :thaenkin:

#VocêOpina #VoceOpina #VarsityPlaza #VarsityPlazaLLC #Qualtrics #SurveyTaking #Encuesta #Encuestas #Sondeo #Sondeos

🧠🏔️ I’m sharing presentations from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference in #Denver at the URL below:

https://bsky.app/profile/byrdnick.com/post/3m6agtctbhc2b

My poster is about #argumentMapping and #learningScience. You will also find presentations about how to advance #cogSci with #AI tools, do #ProcessTracing in #Qualtrics without #coding, and avoid backfiring in #healthcare #nudges.

Follow to fight FOMO and enjoy #openAccess conferencing.

#SJDM25 #psychology #SciComm

🧠🏔️ I’m sharing presentations from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference in #Denver at the URL below:

https://bsky.app/profile/byrdnick.com/post/3m6agtctbhc2b

My poster is about #argumentMapping and #learningScience. You will also find presentations about how to advance #cogSci with #AI tools, do #ProcessTracing in #Qualtrics without #coding, and avoid backfiring in #healthcare #nudges.

Follow to fight FOMO and enjoy #openAccess conferencing.

#SJDM25 #psychology #SciComm

🧠🏔️ I’m sharing presentations from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference in #Denver at the URL below:

https://bsky.app/profile/byrdnick.com/post/3m6agtctbhc2b

My poster is about #argumentMapping and #learningScience. You will also find presentations about how to advance #cogSci with #AI tools, do #ProcessTracing in #Qualtrics without #coding, and avoid backfiring in #healthcare #nudges.

Follow to fight FOMO and enjoy #openAccess conferencing.

#SJDM25 #psychology #SciComm

🧠🏔️ I’m sharing presentations from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference in #Denver at the URL below:

https://bsky.app/profile/byrdnick.com/post/3m6agtctbhc2b

My poster is about #argumentMapping and #learningScience. You will also find presentations about how to advance #cogSci with #AI tools, do #ProcessTracing in #Qualtrics without #coding, and avoid backfiring in #healthcare #nudges.

Follow to fight FOMO and enjoy #openAccess conferencing.

#SJDM25 #psychology #SciComm

🧠🏔️ I’m sharing presentations from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference in #Denver at the URL below:

https://bsky.app/profile/byrdnick.com/post/3m6agtctbhc2b

My poster is about #argumentMapping and #learningScience. You will also find presentations about how to advance #cogSci with #AI tools, do #ProcessTracing in #Qualtrics without #coding, and avoid backfiring in #healthcare #nudges.

Follow to fight FOMO and enjoy #openAccess conferencing.

#SJDM25 #psychology #SciComm

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names SVP; AWS exec departs for startup; WatchGuard’s new CEO - Drew Garner at Smartsheet’s Engage conference in Seattle this week. (Photo courte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/tech-moves-smartsheet-names-svp-aws-exec-departs-for-startup-watchguards-new-ceo/ #angelcapitalassociationboard #closecohencareerconsulting #watchguardtechnologies #pioneersquarelabs #baskarsridharan #huckleberry #drewgarner #smartsheet #watchguard #techmoves #foreffect #qualtrics

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names SVP; AWS exec departs for startup; WatchGuard’s new CEO - Drew Garner at Smartsheet’s Engage conference in Seattle this week. (Photo courte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/tech-moves-smartsheet-names-svp-aws-exec-departs-for-startup-watchguards-new-ceo/ #angelcapitalassociationboard #closecohencareerconsulting #watchguardtechnologies #pioneersquarelabs #baskarsridharan #huckleberry #drewgarner #smartsheet #watchguard #techmoves #foreffect #qualtrics

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names SVP; AWS exec departs for startup; WatchGuard’s new CEO - Drew Garner at Smartsheet’s Engage conference in Seattle this week. (Photo courte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/tech-moves-smartsheet-names-svp-aws-exec-departs-for-startup-watchguards-new-ceo/ #angelcapitalassociationboard #closecohencareerconsulting #watchguardtechnologies #pioneersquarelabs #baskarsridharan #huckleberry #drewgarner #smartsheet #watchguard #techmoves #foreffect #qualtrics

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names SVP; AWS exec departs for startup; WatchGuard’s new CEO - Drew Garner at Smartsheet’s Engage conference in Seattle this week. (Photo courte... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/tech-moves-smartsheet-names-svp-aws-exec-departs-for-startup-watchguards-new-ceo/ #angelcapitalassociationboard #closecohencareerconsulting #watchguardtechnologies #pioneersquarelabs #baskarsridharan #huckleberry #drewgarner #smartsheet #watchguard #techmoves #foreffect #qualtrics

This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share

If you use #Qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all that righteous #reproducibility #OpenResearch karma

Problem is, the Qualtrics export of a survey puts each question and response option on a separate page, making the document effectively unreadable

1/

This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share

If you use #Qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all that righteous #reproducibility #OpenResearch karma

Problem is, the Qualtrics export of a survey puts each question and response option on a separate page, making the document effectively unreadable

1/

This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share

If you use #Qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all that righteous #reproducibility #OpenResearch karma

Problem is, the Qualtrics export of a survey puts each question and response option on a separate page, making the document effectively unreadable

1/

This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share

If you use #Qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all that righteous #reproducibility #OpenResearch karma

Problem is, the Qualtrics export of a survey puts each question and response option on a separate page, making the document effectively unreadable

1/

This is a solution to a niche problem, but I was happy with it, so I'll share

If you use #Qualtrics for survey experiments you will want to share the exact survey - item wording, response options, order of items - as part of your open data, analysis code and study materials repository for all that righteous #reproducibility #OpenResearch karma

Problem is, the Qualtrics export of a survey puts each question and response option on a separate page, making the document effectively unreadable

1/

Qualtrics to acquire healthcare data giant Press Ganey Forsta in $6.75B deal - Qualtrics’ Plano, Texas office. (Qualtrics Photo)

Qualtrics is making its larg... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/qualtrics-to-acquire-healthcare-data-giant-press-ganey-forsta-in-6-75b-deal/ #acquisition #qualtrics #tech #ma

Qualtrics to acquire healthcare data giant Press Ganey Forsta in $6.75B deal - Qualtrics’ Plano, Texas office. (Qualtrics Photo)

Qualtrics is making its larg... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/qualtrics-to-acquire-healthcare-data-giant-press-ganey-forsta-in-6-75b-deal/ #acquisition #qualtrics #tech #ma

Qualtrics to acquire healthcare data giant Press Ganey Forsta in $6.75B deal - Qualtrics’ Plano, Texas office. (Qualtrics Photo)

Qualtrics is making its larg... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/qualtrics-to-acquire-healthcare-data-giant-press-ganey-forsta-in-6-75b-deal/ #acquisition #qualtrics #tech #ma

Qualtrics to acquire healthcare data giant Press Ganey Forsta in $6.75B deal - Qualtrics’ Plano, Texas office. (Qualtrics Photo)

Qualtrics is making its larg... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/qualtrics-to-acquire-healthcare-data-giant-press-ganey-forsta-in-6-75b-deal/ #acquisition #qualtrics #tech #ma

Qualtrics to acquire healthcare data giant Press Ganey Forsta in $6.75B deal - Qualtrics’ Plano, Texas office. (Qualtrics Photo)

Qualtrics is making its larg... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/qualtrics-to-acquire-healthcare-data-giant-press-ganey-forsta-in-6-75b-deal/ #acquisition #qualtrics #tech #ma

How AI is changing the way companies listen and build products, with Brad Anderson of Qualtrics - Brad Anderson at Qualtrics Tower in Seattle, where he sat down to talk about AI, ... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/how-ai-is-changing-the-way-companies-listen-and-build-with-qualtrics-product-chief-brad-anderson/ #artificialintelligence #engineeringleadership #customerexperience #enterprisesoftware #productdevelopment #geekwirepodcast #microsoftalumni #techinterviews #radanderson #qualtrics

How AI is changing the way companies listen and build products, with Brad Anderson of Qualtrics - Brad Anderson at Qualtrics Tower in Seattle, where he sat down to talk about AI, ... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/how-ai-is-changing-the-way-companies-listen-and-build-with-qualtrics-product-chief-brad-anderson/ #artificialintelligence #engineeringleadership #customerexperience #enterprisesoftware #productdevelopment #geekwirepodcast #microsoftalumni #techinterviews #radanderson #qualtrics

How AI is changing the way companies listen and build products, with Brad Anderson of Qualtrics - Brad Anderson at Qualtrics Tower in Seattle, where he sat down to talk about AI, ... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/how-ai-is-changing-the-way-companies-listen-and-build-with-qualtrics-product-chief-brad-anderson/ #artificialintelligence #engineeringleadership #customerexperience #enterprisesoftware #productdevelopment #geekwirepodcast #microsoftalumni #techinterviews #radanderson #qualtrics

How AI is changing the way companies listen and build products, with Brad Anderson of Qualtrics - Brad Anderson at Qualtrics Tower in Seattle, where he sat down to talk about AI, ... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/how-ai-is-changing-the-way-companies-listen-and-build-with-qualtrics-product-chief-brad-anderson/ #artificialintelligence #engineeringleadership #customerexperience #enterprisesoftware #productdevelopment #geekwirepodcast #microsoftalumni #techinterviews #radanderson #qualtrics

How AI is changing the way companies listen and build products, with Brad Anderson of Qualtrics - Brad Anderson at Qualtrics Tower in Seattle, where he sat down to talk about AI, ... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/how-ai-is-changing-the-way-companies-listen-and-build-with-qualtrics-product-chief-brad-anderson/ #artificialintelligence #engineeringleadership #customerexperience #enterprisesoftware #productdevelopment #geekwirepodcast #microsoftalumni #techinterviews #radanderson #qualtrics

Is #qualtrics getting enshittified? Or maybe just "we're awesome so why should we improve things?"

I've been a long-time cheerleader for Qualtrics, since they were little more than a couple of white dudes building cool stuff in Provo, UT (and their yearly subscription rate for academics was 1/4 of what it is now). Recent things that are giving me hassles of various degrees, all of which have been issues for 20-odd years:

- No "repeat headers" for slider tables
- Bipolar matrix tables are broken for mobile
- No bipolar slider tables
- Need to know arcane & bespoke CSS to adjust basic things like response option labels

And my 20-year pet peeve:

Let me use words and letters as export labels, not just numbers.

Anyway. Seems like that shit (and more) could have all been fixed sometime in the past two decades.

#enshittification #survey #research

Is #qualtrics getting enshittified? Or maybe just "we're awesome so why should we improve things?"

I've been a long-time cheerleader for Qualtrics, since they were little more than a couple of white dudes building cool stuff in Provo, UT (and their yearly subscription rate for academics was 1/4 of what it is now). Recent things that are giving me hassles of various degrees, all of which have been issues for 20-odd years:

- No "repeat headers" for slider tables
- Bipolar matrix tables are broken for mobile
- No bipolar slider tables
- Need to know arcane & bespoke CSS to adjust basic things like response option labels

And my 20-year pet peeve:

Let me use words and letters as export labels, not just numbers.

Anyway. Seems like that shit (and more) could have all been fixed sometime in the past two decades.

#enshittification #survey #research

Is #qualtrics getting enshittified? Or maybe just "we're awesome so why should we improve things?"

I've been a long-time cheerleader for Qualtrics, since they were little more than a couple of white dudes building cool stuff in Provo, UT (and their yearly subscription rate for academics was 1/4 of what it is now). Recent things that are giving me hassles of various degrees, all of which have been issues for 20-odd years:

- No "repeat headers" for slider tables
- Bipolar matrix tables are broken for mobile
- No bipolar slider tables
- Need to know arcane & bespoke CSS to adjust basic things like response option labels

And my 20-year pet peeve:

Let me use words and letters as export labels, not just numbers.

Anyway. Seems like that shit (and more) could have all been fixed sometime in the past two decades.

#enshittification #survey #research

Is #qualtrics getting enshittified? Or maybe just "we're awesome so why should we improve things?"

I've been a long-time cheerleader for Qualtrics, since they were little more than a couple of white dudes building cool stuff in Provo, UT (and their yearly subscription rate for academics was 1/4 of what it is now). Recent things that are giving me hassles of various degrees, all of which have been issues for 20-odd years:

- No "repeat headers" for slider tables
- Bipolar matrix tables are broken for mobile
- No bipolar slider tables
- Need to know arcane & bespoke CSS to adjust basic things like response option labels

And my 20-year pet peeve:

Let me use words and letters as export labels, not just numbers.

Anyway. Seems like that shit (and more) could have all been fixed sometime in the past two decades.

#enshittification #survey #research

Is #qualtrics getting enshittified? Or maybe just "we're awesome so why should we improve things?"

I've been a long-time cheerleader for Qualtrics, since they were little more than a couple of white dudes building cool stuff in Provo, UT (and their yearly subscription rate for academics was 1/4 of what it is now). Recent things that are giving me hassles of various degrees, all of which have been issues for 20-odd years:

- No "repeat headers" for slider tables
- Bipolar matrix tables are broken for mobile
- No bipolar slider tables
- Need to know arcane & bespoke CSS to adjust basic things like response option labels

And my 20-year pet peeve:

Let me use words and letters as export labels, not just numbers.

Anyway. Seems like that shit (and more) could have all been fixed sometime in the past two decades.

#enshittification #survey #research

Just filled out a feedback form that was worse than the not great experience I paid for. They used #qualtrics and I've never seen that product look so bad.
This may escalate...

Just filled out a feedback form that was worse than the not great experience I paid for. They used #qualtrics and I've never seen that product look so bad.
This may escalate...

Just filled out a feedback form that was worse than the not great experience I paid for. They used #qualtrics and I've never seen that product look so bad.
This may escalate...

Just filled out a feedback form that was worse than the not great experience I paid for. They used #qualtrics and I've never seen that product look so bad.
This may escalate...

New #surveyMethods paper replicates and extends differences in #dataQuality, attention, naivety, decision style, etc. by
- online #research recruitment platform (#mTurk, #Prolific, #Qualtrics, #Pollfish)
- device (#mobile v. #desktop)
- person's incentive

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02618-1

New #surveyMethods paper replicates and extends differences in #dataQuality, attention, naivety, decision style, etc. by
- online #research recruitment platform (#mTurk, #Prolific, #Qualtrics, #Pollfish)
- device (#mobile v. #desktop)
- person's incentive

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02618-1

New #surveyMethods paper replicates and extends differences in #dataQuality, attention, naivety, decision style, etc. by
- online #research recruitment platform (#mTurk, #Prolific, #Qualtrics, #Pollfish)
- device (#mobile v. #desktop)
- person's incentive

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02618-1

New #surveyMethods paper replicates and extends differences in #dataQuality, attention, naivety, decision style, etc. by
- online #research recruitment platform (#mTurk, #Prolific, #Qualtrics, #Pollfish)
- device (#mobile v. #desktop)
- person's incentive

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02618-1

New #surveyMethods paper replicates and extends differences in #dataQuality, attention, naivety, decision style, etc. by
- online #research recruitment platform (#mTurk, #Prolific, #Qualtrics, #Pollfish)
- device (#mobile v. #desktop)
- person's incentive

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02618-1

@Psyvacy Fraud is impossible because the surveys from qualtrics are not profitable to the survey contributors (AFAIK; fraud entails using deception to profit).

IP reputation is a crude and blunt instrument that undermines most surveys by excluding the whole demographic of digital rights proponents which silences important voices; yielding only results from people unconcerned with privacy.

The survey URLs are unique and distributed by email to solicit known individual prospective contributors through that apparently unique URL, which they can ensure only submits one ballot. That’s apparently how some of the #Qualtrics surveys work.

I’ve not done a deep dive on their business but if they are also distributing non-unique URLs to survey to many people, the questions need to be clever.

The two types of surveys obviously have different needs and challenges, so it’s probably unwise to try to use the same canned platform for both. Adding compensation complicates the approach considerably more.

A Tor-blocking CAPTCHA-pushing survey is only sensible if you actually intend to survey the demographics of tech illiterates and those apathetic about tech rights. If that demographic is inappropriate for the research, then qualtrics is unsuitable. You cannot ignore the /observer effect/. Qualtrics amplifies the observer effect with disregard.

The ironic injustice is that as I am hit with survey after survey from financial institutions, I have lots of feedback to give them about how their banking website (for example) blocks me or pushes CAPTCHA, and yet the survey itself has the same problems hindering me from participating. They sometimes say “how is our website? Take this survey… (qualtrics)…” I cannot give feedback about the ways in which their website is shitty when the survey itself is even more broken.

So in most surveys I find them to be excluding the demographic of people they most need to hear from. It’s an addiction to digital transformation. The option to send paper surveys with a prepaid return envelope is being overlooked in too many situations.

@AstaMcCarthy @proffnes

@Psyvacy Fraud is impossible because the surveys from qualtrics are not profitable to the survey contributors (AFAIK; fraud entails using deception to profit).

IP reputation is a crude and blunt instrument that undermines most surveys by excluding the whole demographic of digital rights proponents which silences important voices; yielding only results from people unconcerned with privacy.

The survey URLs are unique and distributed by email to solicit known individual prospective contributors through that apparently unique URL, which they can ensure only submits one ballot. That’s apparently how some of the #Qualtrics surveys work.

I’ve not done a deep dive on their business but if they are also distributing non-unique URLs to survey to many people, the questions need to be clever.

The two types of surveys obviously have different needs and challenges, so it’s probably unwise to try to use the same canned platform for both. Adding compensation complicates the approach considerably more.

A Tor-blocking CAPTCHA-pushing survey is only sensible if you actually intend to survey the demographics of tech illiterates and those apathetic about tech rights. If that demographic is inappropriate for the research, then qualtrics is unsuitable. You cannot ignore the /observer effect/. Qualtrics amplifies the observer effect with disregard.

The ironic injustice is that as I am hit with survey after survey from financial institutions, I have lots of feedback to give them about how their banking website (for example) blocks me or pushes CAPTCHA, and yet the survey itself has the same problems hindering me from participating. They sometimes say “how is our website? Take this survey… (qualtrics)…” I cannot give feedback about the ways in which their website is shitty when the survey itself is even more broken.

So in most surveys I find them to be excluding the demographic of people they most need to hear from. It’s an addiction to digital transformation. The option to send paper surveys with a prepaid return envelope is being overlooked in too many situations.

@AstaMcCarthy @proffnes

@Psyvacy Fraud is impossible because the surveys from qualtrics are not profitable to the survey contributors (AFAIK; fraud entails using deception to profit).

IP reputation is a crude and blunt instrument that undermines most surveys by excluding the whole demographic of digital rights proponents which silences important voices; yielding only results from people unconcerned with privacy.

The survey URLs are unique and distributed by email to solicit known individual prospective contributors through that apparently unique URL, which they can ensure only submits one ballot. That’s apparently how some of the #Qualtrics surveys work.

I’ve not done a deep dive on their business but if they are also distributing non-unique URLs to survey to many people, the questions need to be clever.

The two types of surveys obviously have different needs and challenges, so it’s probably unwise to try to use the same canned platform for both. Adding compensation complicates the approach considerably more.

A Tor-blocking CAPTCHA-pushing survey is only sensible if you actually intend to survey the demographics of tech illiterates and those apathetic about tech rights. If that demographic is inappropriate for the research, then qualtrics is unsuitable. You cannot ignore the /observer effect/. Qualtrics amplifies the observer effect with disregard.

The ironic injustice is that as I am hit with survey after survey from financial institutions, I have lots of feedback to give them about how their banking website (for example) blocks me or pushes CAPTCHA, and yet the survey itself has the same problems hindering me from participating. They sometimes say “how is our website? Take this survey… (qualtrics)…” I cannot give feedback about the ways in which their website is shitty when the survey itself is even more broken.

So in most surveys I find them to be excluding the demographic of people they most need to hear from. It’s an addiction to digital transformation. The option to send paper surveys with a prepaid return envelope is being overlooked in too many situations.

@AstaMcCarthy @proffnes

@Psyvacy Fraud is impossible because the surveys from qualtrics are not profitable to the survey contributors (AFAIK; fraud entails using deception to profit).

IP reputation is a crude and blunt instrument that undermines most surveys by excluding the whole demographic of digital rights proponents which silences important voices; yielding only results from people unconcerned with privacy.

The survey URLs are unique and distributed by email to solicit known individual prospective contributors through that apparently unique URL, which they can ensure only submits one ballot. That’s apparently how some of the #Qualtrics surveys work.

I’ve not done a deep dive on their business but if they are also distributing non-unique URLs to survey to many people, the questions need to be clever.

The two types of surveys obviously have different needs and challenges, so it’s probably unwise to try to use the same canned platform for both. Adding compensation complicates the approach considerably more.

A Tor-blocking CAPTCHA-pushing survey is only sensible if you actually intend to survey the demographics of tech illiterates and those apathetic about tech rights. If that demographic is inappropriate for the research, then qualtrics is unsuitable. You cannot ignore the /observer effect/. Qualtrics amplifies the observer effect with disregard.

The ironic injustice is that as I am hit with survey after survey from financial institutions, I have lots of feedback to give them about how their banking website (for example) blocks me or pushes CAPTCHA, and yet the survey itself has the same problems hindering me from participating. They sometimes say “how is our website? Take this survey… (qualtrics)…” I cannot give feedback about the ways in which their website is shitty when the survey itself is even more broken.

So in most surveys I find them to be excluding the demographic of people they most need to hear from. It’s an addiction to digital transformation. The option to send paper surveys with a prepaid return envelope is being overlooked in too many situations.

@AstaMcCarthy @proffnes

@AstaMcCarthy @proffnes It’s just crazy that someone would solve a #CAPTCHA of any kind to take a #survey. I suppose the survey pusher must be a charity that the survey taker really wants to help.

I primarily just get Qualtrics surveys from financial institutions who repeatedly nag me to take their survey. Every single time I get a 403 forbidden (Tor is blocked). So they want to force me to disclose even more personal data than the survey itself calls for, even if the survey pusher follows @renebekkers’s guide¹. Yikes.. then hearing from other ppl who can reach the site that they must solve a captcha and dance for them.. what a shit-show. Who are these ppl willing to bend over backwards to give both data and labor for nothing?

So, here is my question: how can I stop all senders (financial institutions in particular) from sharing my email address with Qualtrics? The bottom of these nags has an unsubscribe button. I generally avoid those as they signal that me email address is live. But what if I visit those unsubscribe links? Will it unsubscribe all future qualtrics nags by that sender?

…Oh shit… 403 error. So we cannot unsubscribe without compromising more data. Surely #Qualtrics violates³ the #CanSpamAct by blocking people from accessing the unsubscription mechanism.

@samweingamgee’s #privacy concern² is also notable.

¹ https://mastodon.social/@renebekkers/110650108283313811

² https://fediscience.org/@samweingamgee/111545579264089646

³ question for #lawFedi folks about #USlaw.

@AstaMcCarthy @proffnes It’s just crazy that someone would solve a #CAPTCHA of any kind to take a #survey. I suppose the survey pusher must be a charity that the survey taker really wants to help.

I primarily just get Qualtrics surveys from financial institutions who repeatedly nag me to take their survey. Every single time I get a 403 forbidden (Tor is blocked). So they want to force me to disclose even more personal data than the survey itself calls for, even if the survey pusher follows @renebekkers’s guide¹. Yikes.. then hearing from other ppl who can reach the site that they must solve a captcha and dance for them.. what a shit-show. Who are these ppl willing to bend over backwards to give both data and labor for nothing?

So, here is my question: how can I stop all senders (financial institutions in particular) from sharing my email address with Qualtrics? The bottom of these nags has an unsubscribe button. I generally avoid those as they signal that me email address is live. But what if I visit those unsubscribe links? Will it unsubscribe all future qualtrics nags by that sender?

…Oh shit… 403 error. So we cannot unsubscribe without compromising more data. Surely #Qualtrics violates³ the #CanSpamAct by blocking people from accessing the unsubscription mechanism.

@samweingamgee’s #privacy concern² is also notable.

¹ https://mastodon.social/@renebekkers/110650108283313811

² https://fediscience.org/@samweingamgee/111545579264089646

³ question for #lawFedi folks about #USlaw.

@AstaMcCarthy @proffnes It’s just crazy that someone would solve a #CAPTCHA of any kind to take a #survey. I suppose the survey pusher must be a charity that the survey taker really wants to help.

I primarily just get Qualtrics surveys from financial institutions who repeatedly nag me to take their survey. Every single time I get a 403 forbidden (Tor is blocked). So they want to force me to disclose even more personal data than the survey itself calls for, even if the survey pusher follows @renebekkers’s guide¹. Yikes.. then hearing from other ppl who can reach the site that they must solve a captcha and dance for them.. what a shit-show. Who are these ppl willing to bend over backwards to give both data and labor for nothing?

So, here is my question: how can I stop all senders (financial institutions in particular) from sharing my email address with Qualtrics? The bottom of these nags has an unsubscribe button. I generally avoid those as they signal that me email address is live. But what if I visit those unsubscribe links? Will it unsubscribe all future qualtrics nags by that sender?

…Oh shit… 403 error. So we cannot unsubscribe without compromising more data. Surely #Qualtrics violates³ the #CanSpamAct by blocking people from accessing the unsubscription mechanism.

@samweingamgee’s #privacy concern² is also notable.

¹ https://mastodon.social/@renebekkers/110650108283313811

² https://fediscience.org/@samweingamgee/111545579264089646

³ question for #lawFedi folks about #USlaw.

@AstaMcCarthy @proffnes It’s just crazy that someone would solve a #CAPTCHA of any kind to take a #survey. I suppose the survey pusher must be a charity that the survey taker really wants to help.

I primarily just get Qualtrics surveys from financial institutions who repeatedly nag me to take their survey. Every single time I get a 403 forbidden (Tor is blocked). So they want to force me to disclose even more personal data than the survey itself calls for, even if the survey pusher follows @renebekkers’s guide¹. Yikes.. then hearing from other ppl who can reach the site that they must solve a captcha and dance for them.. what a shit-show. Who are these ppl willing to bend over backwards to give both data and labor for nothing?

So, here is my question: how can I stop all senders (financial institutions in particular) from sharing my email address with Qualtrics? The bottom of these nags has an unsubscribe button. I generally avoid those as they signal that me email address is live. But what if I visit those unsubscribe links? Will it unsubscribe all future qualtrics nags by that sender?

…Oh shit… 403 error. So we cannot unsubscribe without compromising more data. Surely #Qualtrics violates³ the #CanSpamAct by blocking people from accessing the unsubscription mechanism.

@samweingamgee’s #privacy concern² is also notable.

¹ https://mastodon.social/@renebekkers/110650108283313811

² https://fediscience.org/@samweingamgee/111545579264089646

³ question for #lawFedi folks about #USlaw.