Sometimes you wonder why you qualified for a survey ??
By topffer
@topffer (42156)
France
September 15, 2020 10:04am CST
This one started to ask me if I had been to "NSW National parks". I did not knew what they were meaning by "NSW", but I have been to a few National parks, so I responded "yes", and I brillantly qualified to a survey about my future projects of trekking in New South-Wales, Australia.
And when they asked me if I identified as an aboriginal... At this stupid question, I could not resist and responded "Yes", the proof is that I hunt rats with a boomerang in the bush starting at the feet of the Eiffel tower to feed my family.
Sometimes you also wonder why they pay you ?? Yes, I was paid for this one.
Call me Wallaroo, it is my aboriginal name.
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@jobelbojel (35987)
• Philippines
15 Sep 20
I have not tried the experience of answering survey.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
15 Sep 20
@jobelbojel This is what happens most of the time... I gave up on surveys several times.
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@jobelbojel (35987)
• Philippines
15 Sep 20
@topffer I tried 2 or 3 times. After answering the survey, it says I am not qualified.
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@FourWalls (68888)
• United States
15 Sep 20
No, I don’t wonder. I just chalk it up to “qualifying” meaning that they got my name from some other company’s mailing list.
Now we’ll have to sing that Men At Work song to you: “you come from a land Down Under.” 
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@topffer (42156)
• France
15 Sep 20
I am sure they have my name and location, but I refuse to respond to questions about ethnicity, they are forbidden here. I may get later a bad note to have made fun, but I rarely respond to surveys, so that would be alright. And at the last question asking if they could contact me again for another survey, I responded "No"
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@FourWalls (68888)
• United States
15 Sep 20
@topffer — I hate our surveys that ask that, especially “are you Latino.” Why is that the only ethnicity they are interested in?!?! Wish that was forbidden in America, too!!
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@topffer (42156)
• France
15 Sep 20
@FourWalls I have had that too, and indeed I responded "yes", although not a Latino would believe it, not because of my Spanish, but of my green eyes and red beard
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
15 Sep 20
aw, thanks so much fer this! got quite the chuckle't yer answerin', lol. i don't do surveys, tried some years 'go 'n found i aint their sort'a material. which's good. data miners... glad ya got paid, too, wallaroo ;)
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
16 Sep 20
@topffer lol, 'greed! those folks'll data mine from wheree'er they can though. what info they can't use, they sell to others.
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@LindaOHio (181177)
• United States
15 Sep 20
Now that I'm older I usually don't qualify for surveys. Your experience with that survey was humorous! Have a good day.
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@florelway (23286)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
15 Sep 20
@MALUSE sometimes I prefer not answering the age portion, in some cases I succeeded in finishing up a survey. You're right older people seldom qualify.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Sep 20
Well hiya Wallaroo how der yer dooo?
You have made me grin from ear to ear.
We are just liking you to make us laff
Good on yer bro
G´day now and keep those chortles coming.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Sep 20
@topffer
Its infectious tops you keep that coming a wallaroo indeed its really funny and thank you roo for sharing and letting us wallaroo in the laffs kid.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
16 Sep 20
@lovinangelsinstead21 A weird thing is that I created wallaroo by mixing wallaby and kangaroo, and found today that it was already existing and was coming from an aboriginal word
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@RebeccasFarm (90295)
• Arvada, Colorado
21 Sep 20
No harm done you aborigine you wild man of Borneo
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@psanasangma (7281)
• India
15 Sep 20
This demography survey is really a thing that allows to qualify when company target particular participants. Recently I was disqualified because I am single
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@psanasangma (7281)
• India
16 Sep 20
@topffer yes, sometimes it happens that you filled all the questionnaires and at the end while directing to the main page, message displaying " we are looking slightly different profile".. this really disappoint me
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
8 Nov 20
That's usually what is called the" get lost" question - the agency sending the survey knows fine-well if you have an Aboriginal name or not, I think
If they want you to "answer truthfully", they should honour the information they have on you in the first place, and target the survey correctly!
What goes around, comes around... 
If they want you to "answer truthfully", they should honour the information they have on you in the first place, and target the survey correctly!
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@topffer (42156)
• France
8 Nov 20
Not sure, this survey was obviously made for Australians only, and I think I got it because of an error somewhere. I also do not believe at a strong AI able to recognize an aboriginal name, and I am not sure they have my name (this was from Swagbucks, Swagbucks has my name, I do not believe it shares it.) The pollsters giving surveys to fill to Swagbucks are in the fog. They collect a few datas and rate the responder after analysis, but my ratings, depending of the pollsters are between 86=critical to 111=very good. How they rate is a mystery for me as I usually do not cheat, except on ethnicity or other questions not legal in France.
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@JESSY3236 (20046)
• United States
22 Sep 20
lol I accidently had put on a survey once that I was black. I wasn't qualified for it. But yeah some surveys are stupid.
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
15 Sep 20
Actually it astonishes me when I qualify for the surveys even after repeated failures
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
15 Sep 20
@topffer I'm glad your efforts were well paid off.
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@GodServantme (1541)
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7 Nov 20
Lied as a wealthy person in survey and u will qualify
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@topffer (42156)
• France
8 Nov 20
@GodServantme I am not alone. Past 60 it is not that easy. It is not that I never qualify but only 1/3 times.
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@GodServantme (1541)
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8 Nov 20
@topffer I'm surprised why u dont qualify in survey ure from France tier 1 to 2 in survey what survey site u do names??
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@jefferson126 (3314)
• Shenzhen, China
16 Sep 20
you qualified with luck,i once did that. sometimes,don't know the answer for the question,but passed through by luck.
occasionally,i recalled the reason for pass,and found out some unexpected points.
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