Comments | slashpine: Re the SurveyFail & clearing one's survey answers

slashpine

Re the SurveyFail & clearing one's survey answers

Sep 02, 2009 00:11

As fans have noted, even if Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam's survey did not record IPs (which is what they say, and there is no evidence that this is not true), they did use cookies to track each computer's (not users: another problem) responses to the survey. The cookie preserved the link, and thus that computer's (or user's) responses and lets them, for ( Read more... )

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melodyclark September 2 2009, 13:10:24 UTC

Oy, survey research, oy.

All I can do is append a hearty "amen" to all your comments.

elfwreck September 2 2009, 14:12:47 UTC

Would you be willing to unlock this so I can include it in a Linkspam roundup? (I'll understand if you don't want the attention.)

slashpine September 2 2009, 17:51:08 UTC

done! *looks forward to my rather seal-of-hivemind-approval-ish link in the chain icon*

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slashpine September 2 2009, 21:42:46 UTC

cannot look at, "The cake is a lie" without wondering if there is some deconstructive or postmodern analysis to be had behind it.OMG OMG OMG YES HAHAHA U SAID THAT SO PERFECT a;sldfkajs;dfjka ( ... )