Note to dumbass surveys

[Stealth3si]

if you already have enough participants, please take down your survey so people won't wast their time completing them. or at least do it before the survey begins. tahnk you.

[lizandhobbes]

Yes, it can be frustrating to be booted out of a survey that's reached it's quota.  I know it's something we've all experienced.   

[falcon9]

How are survey providers to know in advance whether or not a survey taker meets their demographic quotas? 
They're not 1-800-psychic-surveys and they don't post a running count of filled quotas.

[Stealth3si]

How are survey providers to know in advance whether or not a survey taker meets their demographic quotas?

I don't know. I've never been a survey providers. But if they can do that that would be swell.

They're not 1-800-psychic-surveys

well i don't expect them to..

they don't post a running count of filled quotas.

apparently...

[falcon9]

How are survey providers to know in advance whether or not a survey taker meets their demographic quotas?

I don't know. I've never been a survey providers. But if they can do that that would be swell.

What, become psychic?

They're not 1-800-psychic-surveys

i didn't suggest they were.

"But if they can do that that would be swell."

... they don't post a running count of filled quotas.

apparently...

Therefore, there's no way to know in advance that a specific quota segment will fill while any particular survey taker is taking a survey or, before they begin, (because if they listed demongraphic quota criteria in advance, some people would lie about their demographics just to meet the criteria).

[Stealth3si]

How are survey providers to know in advance whether or not a survey taker meets their demographic quotas?

I don't know. I've never been a survey providers. But if they can do that that would be swell.

What, become psychic?

They're not 1-800-psychic-surveys

i didn't suggest they were.

"But if they can do that that would be swell."

... they don't post a running count of filled quotas.

apparently...

Therefore, there's no way to know in advance that a specific quota segment will fill while any particular survey taker is taking a survey or, before they begin, (because if they listed demongraphic quota criteria in advance, some people would lie about their demographics just to meet the criteria).

if you're talking about a specific quota segment then you could be right....but i'm talking more general....

i've attempted a few different surveys from different survey providers (forget their name) where i got a similar message before i began teh survey.....i don't knwo if that 'trigger' has anything to do witha  survey compeltting its actual quota or not tho..

i've done al ot of surveys over the years and i can tell you by experience that not all of them are optimized to detect these kinds of changes...some appear to have very effective designs some are just plain buggy or in 'beta' stage they are very ineffeicent

[yaayme]

if you already have enough participants, please take down your survey so people won't wast their time completing them. or at least do it before the survey begins. tahnk you.

Hear! Hear!...I agree! 

[dkanofsky]

Surveys are an absolute complete waste of time.  I stopped trying to take those things long ago.  Ninety nine percent of the time I never qualified.