ckelly

Hi Chris, Survata co-founder here. We completely agree! Our surveys are limited to 6 questions for the reasons you cite.

Survata co-founder here.

Thanks for your comment. We're constantly testing the accuracy of our network, and building technology to screen out respondents who are lying to us. To date, the results are good. For example, when we ask respondents "Which time zone are you in?" or "Who is the president of the United State" we see around 97% accuracy. We see this as evidence of quality data.

OP here. Thanks for the feedback. We only surveyed respondents 18+ for this survey. We agree kids under 18 would have been more likely to lie about this type of behavior.

OP here. Thanks for the feedback. We also asked respondents about sexting over text messaging, and got a similar rate (26%) to other studies about sexting[1]. Of course, as we note, this is entirely self-reported behavior and not observed behavior.

[1]http://cbsloc.al/Nv7WPR

This is so sad. I just responded today to an email from him about demandprogress.org. RIP.

Thanks. We did include both the raw data and calorie count references[1] in the footnotes in the original article. We also encourage you to play around with the data in Statwing [2]. Appreciate the feedback and curious what else you can find in the data!

[1] http://bit.ly/U6JQ5c [2] http://bit.ly/SMPeMZ

Hi, OP here. We love feedback on our posts, so happy to hear your thoughts on conflicting conclusions - either here or at contact@survata.com. Thanks.

Glad to see the interest in this new form of market research. YC S12 company Survata.com offers a similar service. We can run multiple questions at a time, so researchers enjoy the ability to cross-tab responses (an important ability you lose when you run only 1 question surveys on other services). We encourage you to check us out at Survata.com (we give all first time users a $10 coupon) and we welcome any feedback.