Maybe if they had a survey for people who habitually leave comments on other people's blogs...
:-)

By the way - I noticed that of all your little links below Abbye and above Sgt. Will, only the "Content Free" one is not linked to anything.

I found considerable humor in that.

Maybe if they had a survey for people who habitually leave comments on other people's blogs...

Hey, there were a couple of questions about leaving and receiving comments!

As far as the link free content free button, I couldn't find anything worth linking to. But, you knew that.

Somehow that button seems existentially grim. "I am a statistic" implies a reduction of all individuality and selfhood into mere numerical data. It sounds like some slogan from "The Prisoner" TV series.

The phrase also implies in some contexts, a very bad ending. As in, "He kept taking walks through a bad area and eventually ended up as a statistic."

Then there's the snub. I click on the button and get the following message:

"It appears that you are using an outdated or unsupported browswer. In order to participate in the MIT Weblog Survey, you'll need to upgrade to one of the following:"

Okay, all you MIT Blue-State boys in Kerry-Kennedy country, two words:

Yo Mamma. My browser's just fine. Nobody else has a problem with it.

If they want people to participate in a survey, they should go out of their way to make it accessible to everyone.

That's what savvy commercial sites do. When I log onto eBay, I don't get a message telling me I need an upgrade.

I can't imagine why one is even needed. For what? A bunch of check boxes/ radio buttons? Sheesh.

I can't imagine why one is even needed. For what?

The survey does have some interesting interactive features whereby your response to certain questions leads to a different set of questions. I've seen this in other surveys, but the response time in this one is instantaneous, leading me to believe they're using some sort of scripting that apparently contributes to the compatibility issues with older browsers.

I had a bigger problem with some of the questions themselves. For example, how do you differentiate in a statistically valid way between "several" and "many"? Those competing qualifiers were used in several (many?) of the survey questions.