Why don’t people give truthful answers to surveys?

(1) Too intrusive—surveys tend to ask for too much personal information
(2) Too mysterious—the organizations administering surveys and the organizations for whom they are collecting information often obscure themselves
(3) Too untrustworthy—surveys’ information, once collected, may be used and re-used, chopped and processed, distributed, analyzed and inspected; participants do not know who will get their information or how the information will be used or most importantly whether and when the original information will be destroyed.

Faced with too many personal questions (such as demographics and psychographics), asked by and for organizations that hide themselves, and no enforceable limits on the uses and storage of the information generated, the only rational response is to not respond at all. However, since most people try not to be rude, they’ll often answer surveys, but attempt to deflect tracking by giving a few subtly false answers.

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