Answering Polls? What's Your Take?

[Moonbear]

a big part of my job was to write "cleansing routines" to pull out junk data entered by you wise guys, so I had to think a lot about what kind of junk addresses I would be tempted to enter in a survey.
"123 Fake Street" was always very popular for a bogus street address. Terribly uncreative, I thought.

So what do you do with people like me who give real address, just not my own? Or real sounding addresses? Every town has a Main St. or Maple St., or something like that. Nobody will ever notice if I use one of those.

I also did mailing list suppression and that could get a little unnerving. I would get credit card offers returned with obscenity-laced death threats.

Sorry about that.

 

[Math Is Hard]

So what do you do with people like me who give real address, just not my own? Or real sounding addresses? Every town has a Main St. or Maple St., or something like that. Nobody will ever notice if I use one of those.

There are a few different strategies at varying price levels for database marketers when it comes to finding out people's addresses and other info. There is readymade software that can be purchased which will do basic street address and zip code checking. That will weed out a lot of the bogus addresses. There are also services which will do address corrections and updates - they check lists against the post office records.

At the upper price range there are some very sophistcated services, who when provided minimal data on a person, such as name and address (an SSN helps, but it's not always needed), will report back an amazing amount of information on that person. They'll will be able to tell you things like how many children a person has, how much she paid for her car, what magazines she buys, if she has pets, her credit score, web sites she visits, if she golfs, etc. These services aren't cheap, so a data marketer will want to have his mailing list as clean as possible before sending it out for appending this info. I was more than a little stunned the first time I saw the "menu" for the different types of info these services could find out about a person. It's really kinda creepy.

Sorry about that.

heh. Trust me, I do it, too.

 

[Danger]

Oh, I wasn't thinking about that complication. I was thinking about "clothing malfunctions."

Other than ease of maintenance, that was the other advantage that I found in shaving off the beard: an end to that dratted Velcro Effect.

 

[Moonbear]

Other than ease of maintenance, that was the other advantage that I found in shaving off the beard: an end to that dratted Velcro Effect.

I kind of like beards...not long beards, but neatly trimmed beards (a little more than just a goatee though, those always make a guy look evil)...they tickle, which can be quite fun. But it's not a requirement; most guys look better clean shaven.

 

[Danger]

most guys look better clean shaven.

That's how the aforementioned psychotic blonde talked me into it after 14 beers. Curiously enough, others agreed, so I kept shaving. The main reason that I grew the thing in the first place was to hide my face, and these weirdos around here think that I look better without it. Go figure...

 

[moose]

Statistically, more people lose than win. Yet more people talk about how they won, than how they lost. NOES we aren't getting anywhere near the amount of information that we need :( *cries*

 

[1123581321]

how could anyone vote never, they just responded to a poll?

 

[Math Is Hard]

exactly. that was the joke. :)

 

[BobG]

how could anyone vote never, they just responded to a poll?

Fortunately for you, the poll isn't anonymous. Just check who voted for "Never" and never, ever trust them.

Wait a minute ...

 

[Moonbear]

how could anyone vote never, they just responded to a poll?

It just proves our polls aren't necessarily accurate.

 

[1123581321]

Fortunately for you, the poll isn't anonymous. Just check who voted for "Never" and never, ever trust them.

Wait a minute ...

that was the joke.

no really, i am not that stupid

you don't believe me

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

*fibs commits suicide*

ahh, knife in head hurts

no

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Fibonacci

 

[Danger]

Fibonacci

I've heard of fettuchini, and macaroni, and ravioli, but fibonacci?

 

[Math Is Hard]

I've heard of fettuchini, and macaroni, and ravioli, but fibonacci?

They're those bright sparkly little things you sew on costumes. You know - Fibonacci Sequins.

 

[Danger]

They're those bright sparkly little things you sew on costumes. You know - Fibonacci Sequins.

Oh! I see... a little fruity for my taste, or perhaps Italian...

 

[1123581321]

I've heard of fettuchini, and macaroni, and ravioli, but fibonacci?

Leonardo Fibonacci created the fibonacci sequence:

1,1,2,3,4,8,13,21,...

 

[Danger]

Leonardo Fibonacci created the fibonacci sequence:

1,1,2,3,4,8,13,21,...

And considering how often I've had to read it lately, I don't know that we should forgive him. You're taking up a lot of RAM.

Incidentally, he may have discovered the sequence, but I doubt that he created it. I'm pretty sure that those numbers were around before he was born.

 

[Danger]

re: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21

Is that your first name or last?

Were your parents Bob Segar fans?

 

[1123581321]

re: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21

Is that your first name or last?

Were your parents Bob Segar fans?

being the smart people you all are, you know that that is not my real name, just a name i use because it sounds cool. Let's play a game, shall we? the game is, guess Fibs real name. hints: first name is of irish origin, which means "noble". the second was a famous, but not well quoted saint who lived in the first 300 years of christianity. the third is very german which i have no clue for, but it has a w in it. have fun, first one to get the first two names gets to send me a check for 100 dollars.

Fibonacci

don't you like cryptic games? i don't.

 

[Danger]

being the smart people you all are, you know that that is not my real name, just a name i use because it sounds cool. Let's play a game, shall we? the game is, guess Fibs real name. hints: first name is of irish origin, which means "noble". the second was a famous, but not well quoted saint who lived in the first 300 years of christianity. the third is very german which i have no clue for, but it has a w in it. have fun, first one to get the first two names gets to send me a check for 100 dollars.

Fibonacci

don't you like cryptic games? i don't.

Seamus Oswald Steinweiner?
No... I don't particularly.

 

[Moonbear]

They're those bright sparkly little things you sew on costumes. You know - Fibonacci Sequins.

 

[Danger]

Seamus Oswald Steinweiner?

Sterling Granwell Sweinstooper?

 

[Evo]

being the smart people you all are, you know that that is not my real name, just a name i use because it sounds cool. Let's play a game, shall we? the game is, guess Fibs real name. hints: first name is of irish origin, which means "noble". the second was a famous, but not well quoted saint who lived in the first 300 years of christianity. the third is very german which i have no clue for, but it has a w in it. have fun, first one to get the first two names gets to send me a check for 100 dollars.

Fibonacci

don't you like cryptic games? i don't.

There are several Irish names which can mean noble, I will chose Brian, St Patrick was born in the 4th century possibly 385AD, but that's close. So, Brian Patrick?

 

[Math Is Hard]

I think Evo might have the first name nailed. Did she get it?

first one to get the first two names gets to send me a check for 100 dollars.

wouldn't you rather have a check for 144 dollars?

 

[Danger]

that is not my real name, just a name i use because it sounds cool.

You remind me of that kid in 'Peanuts'. His name was 555 95472 (5 for short) because his dad thought that people had so many numbers they were losing their identity. (He had two sisters named '3' and '4' as well.)