"Have you participated in memory loss research in the last 3 months?"

Over on Volition, there's a fun conversation going on about dumb survey questions.

(Volition is an online community for mystery shopping, so many of the posts are from mystery shoppers, panel respondents, and serious survey-takers.) 

I had no idea that so many survey writers add the unforgivable “or not” to the end of questions, as in, “Are you an American citizen or not?”

As one of my favorite bloggers says: “Bad Research! No Biscuit!”