Tuesday, August 28, 2007

New Zogby Poll

So I'm finishing up an online Zogby Poll on language skills when I come to this fairly standard question: "
Do you have a child aged 12-17 living in your household?" What caused me to laugh out loud was the third possible answer of "Not Sure". How in the hell can you be not sure if there is a teenager living in your house. Surely you must have noticed all that food was missing or that your access to the bathroom has been compromised. Polls are stupid.

Wait I think I've got it. It's for cross-tab purposes. Whoever is analyzing the data to know which morons to throw out. You want a good cross section of ages, races, education but you also need be able to say we don't sample people who can't tell whether or not there is a teen-ager in their house.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

CRASH!!

I did something stupid and accidentally wiped out my hard drive. I'm trying to rebuild now but I think I lost a month's worth of pictures and a couple of weeks of my journal. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!