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I received a link from someone for the new Radicati Group survey

by Chris Miller at 10:21:53 AM on Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

It was for the 2006 Messaging and Collaboration Survey. Go click and take it yourself. It didn't take the full 10-12 minutes to complete. But there was wording of one question that caught my eye of judgement. As a person that selected I use Domino, they asked also if we planned IBM Workplace Messaging. Well a question that followed asked about my future plans on product use. Notice the choice A entry?

26. What is your messaging plan?
A) Stick with Domino for as long as possible
B) Move to MS Exchange
C) Move to another competitive product
D) Move to a hosted solution
E) Other (Please explain below) :

What the hell does that infer? Stick with it as long as possible? I don't think they read the long terms plans of Notes and Domino at all. They basically make you state that you know Domino is going away, even though we know that it is not. What QA person let this slip by, wait I know, the group putting the survey on.

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1) That’s sort of like asking:
Created by Susan Bulloch at 3/14/2006 11:01:43 AM email | website

Like the old question: "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Yes - I mean No - I mean wait - I never did....Now we know how those surveys get the responses they do....

2) Thanks for the link...
Created by Chris Whisonant at 3/14/2006 11:13:13 AM email | website

I chose "Other" and told them that we will be using Domino indefinitely. I also stated that it was a loaded question that is giving away the reason for their survey - to prove that x% of respondents believe that Domino is going away.

What a load!!!

3)
Created by Alan Lepofsky at 3/14/2006 11:29:36 AM email | website

What are the bullet points for their Exchange question:

A. Even though I suffer through pain and heartache daily, I am still planning on allowing MS to dictate my messaging infrastructure until Bill Gates lets me do otherwise.

B. I wish I could move to Linux, but Exchange won't run on it, so I'll stick to Windows and pray MS does not make me upgrade my hardware again and again

C. Move to Domino

...

...

4) re:
Created by Chris Miller at 3/14/2006 12:11:45 PM email | website

@Alan - not even close at all, not even close. You can go into the survey and peek without filling it out. There is hardly any validation and it doesnt ask your info until the end actually.

5) Push Poll
Created by Jerry Glover at 3/14/2006 12:52:09 PM email | website

In politics, this sort of thing is called a "push poll". You phone the target voters with what is described as a poll, but which has questions phrased in such a way as to influence the voter towards your candidate or position.

This sort of biased survey instrument is also why you should take any survey results with a grain of salt unless the polling org discloses the survey questions (as well as the methodology - self-selecting, randomly selected - and margin of error).

6) Cant agree more
Created by Paul Mooney at 3/14/2006 6:09:51 PM email | website

I got this aswell, like I did last year also... How can this be seen as a fair question? It cant, therefore the survey is tainted before it is even finished. Chris, if you dont mind, I will blog this aswell when I get a chance.

7) Well i did take my time and answered to the poll
Created by Thomas Schulte at 3/15/2006 3:03:26 AM email |

It is quite nice to see radicaty asking this kind of questions in a survey. They are so unbiased.

I also left some comments in the other textboxes. and gave them a email adress. If anyone from Radicati reads them he or she should blush.

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