Please help us with our demographic survey.

(Mon, 11/16/2009 - 11:03  |  10 comments)


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missing profession

There should perhaps be something like "researcher", "research assistant" or "postdoc" and an option for specifying the field of research. "Editor" is perhaps closest from the list to what a linguist does, but it is not quite it, and neither is any kind of teacher in the selection. Not that it matters to me, but perhaps you would like to find out whether foldit is also played by scholars, who usually know nothing about proteins, and yet they enjoy the play as such...

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As much as I hate to sound political...

Given the wide selection of occupations, I'm surprised that "country not listed" isn't available as a choice (and I'm saying this as an U.S. Citizen).

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You need to add "not

You need to add "not comparable" in "Education" for us outside the US.

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Missing job names

Regarding to the posts before, I'm also missing my form of job in the list.
It's warehouseman (for animal products, food and non-food).

I took Laborers and Freight.
On my name plate appears Logistics, but I'm just packing orders, no administrative tasks or doing franchise contact.
So, "other" or free text would be good in the list.

A field for ex-practiced-jobs would also be nice.
Thus I worked as skilled worker for electronics for some years before, this gave me technical knowledge, not what I'm doing now.

For education, it's high school AND college, so I took high school.

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Other occupations specifically

Instead of "other", wouldn't you please private message me the occupation(s) you'd like to see added? Else we'll just end up with a lot of others.

I removed farm products from the occupation, Boots.

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I'm not represented. :-(

I happen to be a purchasing agent/buyer... but not of farm products (that's the only choice!). I buy wire and cable for an electronics systems manufacturer in the tel-com business, so I can't take your survey.

I am also a massage therapist, a photographer, and a video producer; but none of those three occupations provide my primary source of income; so I also can't choose any of those.

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Occupations

Although we can select from about 5 million occupations, I am still missing a few, such as:
professional football player, bounty hunter, prostitute, buccaneer, hit man, sorcerer, pope and POTUS.

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Current Occupation

I think you need to add ~other~ to current occupation. You do not have my occupation listed and the survey will not accept without an answer there.

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Current Occupation:

You need to add other to Current Occupation

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I second the needing to add other

Along with the need to add other to the list, I have a general question... will this data be shared with everyone in terms of informing us on the sites general demographic?

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