LadyAngelika
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Also, who took this poll? From the OnePoll Website. I put emphasis on bits that people who have done legitimate research will recognize: OnePoll conducts online surveys. Once you’re registered - for free - your account opens and you start earning. The more surveys you participate in, the more you can earn. Typically we will have 20 to 30 active polls at any one time. There are also other opportunities for randomly-selected respondents to win cash and other prizes. Click here to see to some of our OnePoll winners. OnePoll undertakes a wide range of market research projects, working on behalf of companies from various sectors within the UK and around the world. I'm certain that they don't have a high penetration rate in countries like China and some Middle Eastern countries were worldwide access to the Web is limited, nor are they a big hit in Africa where Web access is limited and where they don't have the ability to do electronic funds transfer via the Internet and receive the cash compensation. What people are ready to pass off as research is mind boggling! It appears it was more of a market research study than a scientific one. Which means the ethics and methodology are bound to be less rigorous. This was done online not in a lab. Self-reporting questionnaires, however is how alot of data is collected, even by scientists in labs. What country conducted this though? lol The market research firm was British but respondants could come from anywhere around the world according to their Modus Operandi. Now here's the thing. My ex runs a market research firm. Their goal is to give their clients who are asking for the research, the most accurate information possible. Their client is buying this research in order to inform their corporate strategy. That said, I'm not expecting market research to be as effective and rigourous as academic or scientific research. However, if I was going to pay a firm to do market research for me, I wouldn't trust it to a firm that had email sign-up surveys where the end user received cash for the most surveys answered. It is obvious that the data collected is going to be completely unreliable. - LA
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