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reader <acerola@excite.com> wrote:
> replies will be used for statistical analysis, and the survey does not
> collect any ID data.

Then why does it need cookies and JavaScript?
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"Advice is what you ask for when you know the answer but wish you didn't."

my company sent out an employee satisfaction survey that they said was
completely anonymous.  But a unique identifier for each of us was part of
the URL!  I just appended a bunch of phony characters when i went to the
site, and I later got an e-mail asking me to please go on and take the
survey.  Maybe it was anonymous to my company and only tracked by the survey
vendor, but that sure destroyed my confidence in it... sheesh.




> > replies will be used for statistical analysis, and the survey does not
> > collect any ID data.
>
> Then why does it need cookies and JavaScript?

"Darin McGrew" <mcgrew@stanfordalumni.org> wrote in message
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> reader <acerola@excite.com> wrote:
> > replies will be used for statistical analysis, and the survey does not
> > collect any ID data.
>
> Then why does it need cookies and JavaScript?

Not the original poster. Just a tech guy.

Cookies, so that you could return to the exact point where you left the
survey.
Javascript : so that Links can be used to submit the form.

"adf23e" <asdflkjlj4@lkj0222.com> wrote in message news:<tilHc.26541$o62.5638@bignews2.bellsouth.net>...
> my company sent out an employee satisfaction survey that they said was
> completely anonymous.  But a unique identifier for each of us was part of
> the URL!  I just appended a bunch of phony characters when i went to the
> site, and I later got an e-mail asking me to please go on and take the
> survey.  Maybe it was anonymous to my company and only tracked by the survey
> vendor, but that sure destroyed my confidence in it... sheesh.
> 

We really are nothing more than a group of students, trying to reach a
quota of replies to our survey.

There is no need for paranoia in this case.

PS the URL is the same for everyone

acerola@excite.com (reader) writes:
>"adf23e" <asdflkjlj4@lkj0222.com> wrote in message news:<tilHc.26541$o62.5638@bignews2.bellsouth.net>...
>> my company sent out an employee satisfaction survey that they said was
>> completely anonymous.  But a unique identifier for each of us was part of
>> the URL!  I just appended a bunch of phony characters when i went to the
>> site, and I later got an e-mail asking me to please go on and take the
>> survey.  Maybe it was anonymous to my company and only tracked by the survey
>> vendor, but that sure destroyed my confidence in it... sheesh.
>> 
>
>We really are nothing more than a group of students, trying to reach a
>quota of replies to our survey.
>
>There is no need for paranoia in this case.
>

But how valid is a self-selected survey, anyway?

scott

Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote: 
>   acerola@excite.com (reader) writes:
>   >"adf23e" <asdflkjlj4@lkj0222.com> wrote in message news:<tilHc.26541$o62.5638@bignews2.bellsouth.net>...
>   >> my company sent out an employee satisfaction survey that they said was
>   >> completely anonymous.  But a unique identifier for each of us was part of
>   >> the URL!  I just appended a bunch of phony characters when i went to the
>   >> site, and I later got an e-mail asking me to please go on and take the
>   >> survey.  Maybe it was anonymous to my company and only tracked by the survey
>   >> vendor, but that sure destroyed my confidence in it... sheesh.
>   >> 
>   >
>   >We really are nothing more than a group of students, trying to reach a
>   >quota of replies to our survey.
>   >
>   >There is no need for paranoia in this case.
>   >
>   
>   But how valid is a self-selected survey, anyway?

Take the survey, or don't. Sheesh.

"Scott Lurndal" <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote in message
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> acerola@excite.com (reader) writes:
> >"adf23e" <asdflkjlj4@lkj0222.com> wrote in message
news:<tilHc.26541$o62.5638@bignews2.bellsouth.net>...
> >> my company sent out an employee satisfaction survey that they said was
> >> completely anonymous.  But a unique identifier for each of us was part
of
> >> the URL!  I just appended a bunch of phony characters when i went to
the
> >> site, and I later got an e-mail asking me to please go on and take the
> >> survey.  Maybe it was anonymous to my company and only tracked by the
survey
> >> vendor, but that sure destroyed my confidence in it... sheesh.
> >>
> >
> >We really are nothing more than a group of students, trying to reach a
> >quota of replies to our survey.
> >
> >There is no need for paranoia in this case.
> >
>
> But how valid is a self-selected survey, anyway?

what is the alternative? forced survey?

In article <JKWdnVzF-ZY3TnPdRVn-hw@giganews.com>,
 "Janeen Sotero" <obboy@naarkntreimnoiit.com> wrote:


> Take the survey, or don't. Sheesh.

I took it. I'm waiting for the evil.

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"reader" <acerola@excite.com> wrote in message
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> We are a group of students in a University of California, Berkleley
> extension class, doing a class project on telecommuting. We have a
> short survey form re: telecommuting, and ask that you fill it out. The
> respondents we seek are people who work for (now or within the past 2
> years) an enterprise that allows at least some of its employees to
> telecommute.

Count on everyone telecommuting in 5 years. All factories and stores will be
closed. There will be no more restaurants, and food will be delivered on
environmentally friendly bicycles. And segways.

Joey Jolley
The Jolley Family
381 North 450 West
American Fork, Utah 84003

"Joey \"car-free\" Jolley AKA Steve Austin AKA Gomez Adams AKA etc..." <johnmunch@qwest.net> wrote in message news:<JgoIc.14160$oD3.9093@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> --
> "reader" <acerola@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:ec4f0fc8.0407081334.3084784@posting.google.com...
> > We are a group of students in a University of California, Berkleley
> > extension class, doing a class project on telecommuting. We have a
> > short survey form re: telecommuting, and ask that you fill it out. The
> > respondents we seek are people who work for (now or within the past 2
> > years) an enterprise that allows at least some of its employees to
> > telecommute.
> 
> Count on everyone telecommuting in 5 years. All factories and stores will be
> closed. There will be no more restaurants, and food will be delivered on
> environmentally friendly bicycles. And segways.
> 
> Joey Jolley
> The Jolley Family
> 381 North 450 West
> American Fork, Utah 84003



You are beyond merely moronic, Ms. Jolley. Restaurants have existed for
thousands of years (they were invented in ancient China), and stores
even longer. Apparently you don't know where food really comes from either.
Try ordering some Soylent Green.


An exasperated werewolf who is becoming increasingly convinced that Joey
Jolley is in fact the photographer responsible for the infamous "Fecal Japan"
photo.

Darin McGrew wrote:

> reader <acerola@excite.com> wrote:
> > replies will be used for statistical analysis, and the survey does not
> > collect any ID data.
>
> Then why does it need cookies and JavaScript?

 And why does the post come from an edu site rather than excite?


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Joey "car-free" Jolley AKA Steve Austin AKA Gomez Adams AKA etc... wrote:
> --
> "reader" <acerola@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:ec4f0fc8.0407081334.3084784@posting.google.com...
> 
>>We are a group of students in a University of California, Berkleley
>>extension class, doing a class project on telecommuting. We have a
>>short survey form re: telecommuting, and ask that you fill it out. The
>>respondents we seek are people who work for (now or within the past 2
>>years) an enterprise that allows at least some of its employees to
>>telecommute.
> 
> 
> Count on everyone telecommuting in 5 years. All factories and stores will be
> closed. There will be no more restaurants, and food will be delivered on
> environmentally friendly bicycles. And segways.
> 
> Joey Jolley
> The Jolley Family
> 381 North 450 West
> American Fork, Utah 84003
> 
> 


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"Joey "car-free" Jolley AKA Steve Austin AKA Gomez Adams AKA etc..."
<johnmunch@qwest.net> wrote in message
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>
>
> --
> "reader" <acerola@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:ec4f0fc8.0407081334.3084784@posting.google.com...
> > We are a group of students in a University of California, Berkleley
> > extension class, doing a class project on telecommuting. We have a
> > short survey form re: telecommuting, and ask that you fill it out. The
> > respondents we seek are people who work for (now or within the past 2
> > years) an enterprise that allows at least some of its employees to
> > telecommute.
>
> Count on everyone telecommuting in 5 years. All factories and stores will
be
> closed. There will be no more restaurants, and food will be delivered on
> environmentally friendly bicycles. And segways.

Bicycles will be edible. We will all change our names to either Greg Brady
or Marsha Brady and dye our hair blue. Recorded music will be illegal and
all will be required to sing for three hours a day.

John Mann wrote:

> but then we would have to change our names to Marge Simpson.

Did you want to see cartoon characters performing pornographic incest?
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"Bootstrap Bill" <wrcousert@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:HQ6Kc.99625$%_6.66577@attbi_s01...
> Bicycles will be edible. We will all change our names to either Greg Brady
> or Marsha Brady and dye our hair blue. Recorded music will be illegal and
> all will be required to sing for three hours a day.

I think I would be arrested for torture or something if I were to sing three
hours a day.

>
> Count on everyone telecommuting in 5 years. All factories and stores will
be
> closed. There will be no more restaurants, and food will be delivered on
> environmentally friendly bicycles. And segways.
>

How, pray tell, can something be delivered on a bicycle or a Segway if
EVERYONE will be telecommuting? Will said bicycle or Segway drive itself?
And how will farmers do thier work in this new modern age of EVERYONE
telecommuting?

And these aren't even the biggest flaws in your, er...   logic.

"Jack May" <jack.may@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Bootstrap Bill" <wrcousert@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:HQ6Kc.99625$%_6.66577@attbi_s01...
> > Bicycles will be edible. We will all change our names to either Greg
Brady
> > or Marsha Brady and dye our hair blue. Recorded music will be illegal
and
> > all will be required to sing for three hours a day.
>
> I think I would be arrested for torture or something if I were to sing
three
> hours a day.
>
they'd probably get me on manslaughter