8 thoughts on “Take a survey, perhaps win some of Tim Kane’s money”
I see a lot of broken images in the survey that makes it impossible to accurately respond.
I had the same problem, with two of the companies that will be worth the most in 10 years.
Some of the questions were hard to give ‘correct’ answers for. For example, willingness to pay or accept, you could have said “what about $1 more or $1 less” and I would have said, yeah that’s still fine. I know the instructions said be precise, but no matter the price, I’d always be willing to move a marginal dollar.
Yes, I had a white blank option and had to use the element inspector to see what the intended image was for what turned out to be the logo for Amazon. That was my only blank, but perhaps other people had other blanks.
Can we be alerted to whatever publication comes out of this so we can ignore its results? The survey is horrible. Broken links, inability to only select 1 (e.g., I only like the Blues Brothers. Everything else was crap), sheer tediousness of the exercise.
I gave up. I suppose that means something to them.
I* enjoyed the survey, and fully expect $100 in the mail soon.
Bwahahaha!
*certified Tool of the Man.
Links ok with me.
But the “giving up” prices are sort of silly.
We have no experience nor culture with getting money to give something up.
At least with maximum prices to buy something, most of us have bought before, some quite recently.
Funny to think that “social science” will be based on statistics, calculated VERY precisely, about the prices folk claim they’d be willing to accept to give up things like police protection. Not having a better alternative doesn’t stop me from thinking most conclusions from such a survey are pure “infotainment”, with an emphasis on the entertainment part.
We have no experience nor culture with getting money to give something up.
Seems to be the whole thing behind opportunity cost; we’re paid to give up leisure time, and the next best thing we could be doing.
I agree that part is fraught; older, wealthier people will certainly need more compensation to give up a comfort. Some people would pay to have less policing,
I see a lot of broken images in the survey that makes it impossible to accurately respond.
I had the same problem, with two of the companies that will be worth the most in 10 years.
Some of the questions were hard to give ‘correct’ answers for. For example, willingness to pay or accept, you could have said “what about $1 more or $1 less” and I would have said, yeah that’s still fine. I know the instructions said be precise, but no matter the price, I’d always be willing to move a marginal dollar.
Yes, I had a white blank option and had to use the element inspector to see what the intended image was for what turned out to be the logo for Amazon. That was my only blank, but perhaps other people had other blanks.
Can we be alerted to whatever publication comes out of this so we can ignore its results? The survey is horrible. Broken links, inability to only select 1 (e.g., I only like the Blues Brothers. Everything else was crap), sheer tediousness of the exercise.
I gave up. I suppose that means something to them.
I* enjoyed the survey, and fully expect $100 in the mail soon.
Bwahahaha!
*certified Tool of the Man.
Links ok with me.
But the “giving up” prices are sort of silly.
We have no experience nor culture with getting money to give something up.
At least with maximum prices to buy something, most of us have bought before, some quite recently.
Funny to think that “social science” will be based on statistics, calculated VERY precisely, about the prices folk claim they’d be willing to accept to give up things like police protection. Not having a better alternative doesn’t stop me from thinking most conclusions from such a survey are pure “infotainment”, with an emphasis on the entertainment part.
We have no experience nor culture with getting money to give something up.
Seems to be the whole thing behind opportunity cost; we’re paid to give up leisure time, and the next best thing we could be doing.
I agree that part is fraught; older, wealthier people will certainly need more compensation to give up a comfort. Some people would pay to have less policing,