Comments on: “Anonymous” Surveys

By: Jason Griffith

Jason Griffith — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:19:08 +0000

Well it does a pretty good job of narrowing down who you might be, so it wouldn’t be hard to find out if you really wanted to.

In my experience though, surveys of this type are generally handled through a third party company that issues the survey, analyzes the results, and then sends the summarized analysis back to the company.

If it was handled all within the company, then they might as well just replace all of those questions with “Employee Number: ” and called it good.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:15:43 +0000

I’m surprised it didn’t ask for your social security number.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:50:09 +0000

Obviously the above questions could be used to find out who you are. While this makes it a poorly designed survey, it is possible that no ill intent existed.

Any single question could be considered ligetimate when trying to gain statisital information regarding the employees. It is only when you combine the answeres to multple questions that the identity of the taker becomes evident. Perhaps the company has no intention of looking at those questions together.

I have to admit though that if I was given that survey I would be reluctant to give me true openion.