[metmom]

We just got a phone call about same sex marriage. Told them we were against it but refused to do the survey.

I've decided to refuse to do any more surveys.

They have your phone number. They can tell who they are talking to.

I don't believe the claims of confidentiality and I will not go on record any more with opinions that will be used against me by the totalitarian regime that I see on the horizon.

That's especially true of political surveys.

Voting is supposed to be by secret ballot.

I'm not telling them who I voted for or intend to vote for.

[fwdude]

I've decided to refuse to do any more surveys.

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I don't believe the claims of confidentiality and I will not go on record any more with opinions that will be used against me by the totalitarian regime

Oh, I love surveys. And I always hope that they WILL make my answers public, so that I can have a very interesting "conversation" with any sodomite who accosts me.

It really depends on who's conducting it, but I realize that that is sometimes invisible because some groups contract with "objective" survey firms, hiding the agenda of the poll.

We need to boldly come out into the open.

[ClearCase_guy]

I was in a work situation once (big company) -- they did a survey which was completely anonymous. They made sure we knew this. Absolutely. Positively. No one would know our responses. Hundreds of employees at my location took the survey.

When the results came in, my boss debriefed his personal team of 15 people, and went down the list of responses that HIS TEAM had provided.

Not so very anonymous.

[bgill]

I will not go on record any more with opinions that will be used against me by the totalitarian regime that I see on the horizon.

You got that right.