Your Household Income?

Jules

Jules

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No, I’m not interested in your household income, but those doing surveys sure are. That, your gender and your age.

Do you answer this question if you decide to do a survey?
 

Jules said:
Do you answer this question if you decide to do a survey?
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If I do the survey at all I tell my gender and age. Income depends on who is doing the survey, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. And sometimes I lie about it.

I don't always do surveys, but my Aunt used to be in the survey business, so I appreciate that some of them are for the good.
 
In this information abuse era, responding to requested income information has to rank near the stupidest of actions just below providing one's social security number. Well unless one is in debt or poor and trying to use false information for a loan. Commercial interests are certain to be satisfied just seeing my Platinum BofA card.
 
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This is what is concerning about the central bank theory, your money will be controlled for you so no need to ask in a survey.
I don't answer questions from anyone about my income, but will if I win the lottery.... :p
 
I have never taken an online survey or test because as David777 mentioned it's a senseless thing to do. Even if the site isn't looking to steal your identity I would expect the info to be shared for promotions and advertisements. Frankly I do everything I can to minimize my online presence, I have no intention of opening pandoras box of promotions.
 
I use to get paid for doing Surveys for Culture ,media and Art Department , they were sent by Email every 3 months , it was mostly tick boxes and if they were to intruding they could be skipped over .At the end of year Id earned enough to buy a months supply of Dogfood , it came in handy at Christmas time .
It all came to an end when Covid came on the scene ,, many Entertainment Centres closed .
Covid as a lot to answer for .
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I read an interesting article about senior demographics including income. The article said it was extremely difficult to make predictions about senior’s financial security due to several things…whether the seniors would answer the surveys…and how they perceived the questions . The article was about senior poverty.
 
Disgustedman said:
Depends on the information needed, what they use it for. If for medical research, everything, if to target shoppers nothing.
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Be very careful about medical research questions as there have been articles about how that information is sent to foreign countries for data mining. Even when you have to sign electronically at medical facilities, they claim to share only for "research" but it gets fuzzy as to who is getting your information and those 3rd parties have no limits on what they do with it.
 
I would never share that data, even with my children. We lived in a +55 MHP, where some were just getting by. We showed up with 2 new cars within a week, and some comments were made. I just mumbled something about car payments, and that ended the conversation.
 
Lee said:
I'm in the minority here. As long as they do not ask for my name, I answer and I answer truthfully. The exception would be if it was tied in to a credit payment.
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Yes... every survey I've answered had a very wide income range and I understand why they do that for demographics. It's not naming an exact income but rather like "50k - 80k". Now what I have always refused to answer is when it's (rarely) asked about investable assets. There's no way I'd ever give that out.
 
Yes I answer those questions with the appropriate range. Probably because in the past I liked statistics and data. I think it could provide valuable insight to be able to correlate responses with a person's class, such as for certain subjects do upper middle class people tend to have the same opinions as upper class and perhaps for other subjects the upper middle class feels more similarly to the lower middle class, etc.
 

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