Monday, July 8, 2024

Dialing for dollars

Doing some marketing surveys for $ over the long holiday weekend.

They often include questions to see if you're paying attention, like this one:



Then there's this, asking me how many patients with a given condition I've seen in the last month:


The first choice (which I had to look up) is from a Roald Dahl book. It's a disease contracted by eating shoelaces that turns you into a rat. Although personally I think it would be much cooler if it turned you into a cassowary.



Then you get stuff that makes no sense whatsoever:

 


 

 

Or this one, which didn't give me any options in case this wasn't the case:

 




And lastly, in the middle of a survey on treatments for Alzheimer's disease, I encountered this question. I can only assume the survey writer had a personal interest in the topic.




6 comments:

  1. Seems overtly political, I don’t like my humor blogs Go political, if you want political read my blog

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  2. Question 8 is actually very simple, if you just remember that to every ω-consistent recursive class κ of formulae there correspond recursive class-signs γ, such that neither ν Gen γ nor Neg (ν Gen γ) belongs to Flg(κ) (where ν is the free variable of γ).

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  3. The question about buying lights was probably the only one the surveyor was really interested in, and the rest of the questions were just dummies.

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  4. Incidentally, cases of ratitis went way up a few months ago after the opening of "Willy's Chocolate Experience" in Glasgow.

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  5. La angla vere estas la universala lingvo.

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  6. Written by the same people that wrote the book of fables (Bible), they were having a laugh .

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So wadda you think?