self reporting

I just got asked to take a very bizarrely-written and -constructed survey by one of my professional societies.

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What on earth!

Did a computer write it? Or is this how low the ability of administrators to clearly articulate thoughts has sunk? Sweet lord

Usually it’s easy to see, after a few questions, what creepy corporate agenda these surveys actually serve (almost always trying to find out how to get you to constantly “implement new and innovative technologies in the classroom”) but this one just leaves me baffled. Have I experienced changes in my career?? What would a career have to look like in order for a person to answer “no” to that question? Maybe if you were a coal miner? I doubt even then you’d answer “no,” as surely you learn new tasks and get assigned to different teams or whatever even as an old-timey 19th century coal miner. “To what extent did any of the following changes have”?? What the heck kind of sentence construction is that? And what’s that option called “ALL” supposed to mean? All??? All what? And that first one, what are you even talking about?

I stopped taking it

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3 Responses to self reporting

  1. Leander says:

    How in the … Whaaaa?

  2. AF says:

    I want to see this format used for famous poetry/fiction. Your question about the use of “all” gives me: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. How much of the difference did your choice make? (None/Some/Quite a Bit/A Lot/All)

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