Results: A boy and his marbles.
A question I see a lot in surveys, either as a pre-qualification question or a paying attention question, involves a boy always losing his marbles. The only thing that changes is the amount of marbles he loses. Very rarely he will gain marbles. Have you come across this type of question?
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Here is a sample. A boy had 4 marbles and lost one. How many marbles does he have now? Have you come across this question in surveys.
Yes
86%
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1900 votes
No
14%
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300 votes
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2.
If you have seen this question, have you ever seen the poor boy gaining any marbles? Yes
26%
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570 votes
No
61%
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1348 votes
Not Applicable
13%
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282 votes
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3.
Do you think these questions are designed to test the survey takers math skills, level of attention, bot like behavior, or all? Basic knowledge, aka math skills.
10%
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229 votes
to see if you are paying attention and actually reading the questions
42%
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917 votes
To see if you are a robot, or just a robotic like person.
17%
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373 votes
ALL
29%
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648 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
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33 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 1.05% | 23 | |
| None | 0.09% | 2 |
| These sites just want you to work harder for their Penny's or points. | 0.05% | 1 |
| NA | 0.05% | 1 |
| Just to mess with you. There times when I have the right answer but still get disqualified! | 0.05% | 1 |
| to waste my time with idiot questions | 0.05% | 1 |
| the 2nd and 3rd option | 0.05% | 1 |
| to sadisticallynwaste your time | 0.05% | 1 |
| They are intended to waste our time, because they resent having to pay our those pennies to get our answers. | 0.05% | 1 |
| See if you have dementia | 0.05% | 1 |
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Have you come across any other weird and funny questions like this designed to test whatever it is they are testing for? Another weird one for me is when they ask if you can name all the different capital cities in the world completely from memory. Or if you have done some obscure activity in the past month, like rode in a helicopter, went bungie jumping or went in a submarine. Share yours in comments? Yes
55%
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1213 votes
No
45%
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987 votes
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