Entries Tagged as ‘silly nitpicking’

March 3, 2009

How Exactly Does One Trust a Brand of Razor?

This is probably a nitpick:

It’s bad enough when you ask me which brand of orange juice I trust most — though I can’t imagine why any nationally known brand of juice would be more or less “trustworthy” than any other — it’s not like I have reason to believe Tropicana’s short-lived carton redesign is indicative [...]

February 4, 2009

Consistency is Key

Of the online polls I see regularly, Harris Interactive seems to be the best of the lot. They actually did something I thought was particularly good in a piece of research I saw today, but of course I’m going to post on the thing they did today that I didn’t like as much.
First, I was [...]

November 11, 2008

Uh, OK.

This happens to be Greenfield’s work, but I’m fairly sure Harris does it as well.
How, exactly, (and why) would you attempt to enter a range of zip codes in answer to this question? Especially considering the field is constrained to 5 characters in size.  Was there a time during which respondents were insisting on claiming [...]

November 10, 2008

Select One Answer

Thanks for the tip. I was going to attempt to select three or four different states, but since you’ve helpfully told me to only select one, I’ll see what I can do.