topic What is it with Surveys? in The Round Table https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/What-is-it-with-Surveys/m-p/1791388#M100920 <P>It doesn't seem to matter if it is a survey about hair colouring gunk, clothes for schoolkids or the best kind of butter.&nbsp;</P><P>I'm talking about the surveys incorporated into TV adverts here. The results are never spoken out loud, you just need to read the text as it flashes across the screen.</P><P><FONT color="#008000">So what's your gripe, Steve?</FONT></P><P>Well, how come these surveys always say something like "274 of 307 people asked agreed."</P><P>Why not just ask 300 so that we can make sense out of the figures?</P><P>Grrrrr!!!</P> Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:35:41 GMT blackburn_stevie 2013-08-12T21:35:41Z What is it with Surveys? https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/What-is-it-with-Surveys/m-p/1791388#M100920 <P>It doesn't seem to matter if it is a survey about hair colouring gunk, clothes for schoolkids or the best kind of butter.&nbsp;</P><P>I'm talking about the surveys incorporated into TV adverts here. The results are never spoken out loud, you just need to read the text as it flashes across the screen.</P><P><FONT color="#008000">So what's your gripe, Steve?</FONT></P><P>Well, how come these surveys always say something like "274 of 307 people asked agreed."</P><P>Why not just ask 300 so that we can make sense out of the figures?</P><P>Grrrrr!!!</P> Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:35:41 GMT https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/What-is-it-with-Surveys/m-p/1791388#M100920 blackburn_stevie 2013-08-12T21:35:41Z Re: What is it with Surveys? https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/What-is-it-with-Surveys/m-p/1791800#M100922 <P>It's just advertising fluff, nothing else.</P> Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:28:42 GMT https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/What-is-it-with-Surveys/m-p/1791800#M100922 bankhaunter 2013-08-12T23:28:42Z Re: What is it with Surveys? https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/What-is-it-with-Surveys/m-p/1793162#M100937 <P>I think they do it because it sounds more 'official' and more precise to say 307 rather than 300.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What they don't tell us is that they gave the 307 people free samples, or they all worked for the advertising agency.</P> Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:24:54 GMT https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/What-is-it-with-Surveys/m-p/1793162#M100937 sir_arthur_strebe-grebling 2013-08-13T10:24:54Z