# survey in GD

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**Created:** [July 15, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580 "2013-07-15T19:00:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-in-gd/663580/2 "2013-07-15T19:03:10Z")

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Like I said - and perhaps you didn’t see this because you were working on this post -

> [@Red Pill vs. Blue Pill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-pill-vs-blue-pill/663578/3):
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> **yottaflop** , if you want to have a discussion about the Matrix scenario on this site, that’s fine. But don’t use this board to get responses to your survey. I’m closing this thread and breaking the link.

If you want to use the board that way, you have to ask for permission.

> [@yottaflop](#):
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> I guess it’s true that my survey could cause the minds of everyone in GD to become infected with the more scientific notion of using anonymous surveys to more accurately gauge opinion

There’s nothing scientific about doing a survey that way. We do have a polling function in certain forums here (IMHO, for example), but they’re for fun and not scientifically valid or anything.

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