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It's an interesting question...but as someone who used to word in the survey world, I've gotta say it: the questions here are not going to give very useful data. Here's a couple of examples (& a tl;dr):

1) "Have you been to the US recently"? The way this Q is worded suggests that the audience is not people who live in the US. Either way, the non-specificity of the Q makes me worry with what info will be extrapolated from the responses.

2) "I haven't installed the following apps: Facebook, LinkedIn...OTHER".

...there are a lot of apps I haven't installed. I hope you don't want me to list them all...?

tl;dr - when putting together a survey like this, be careful to look at it from all sides and see where you could be introducing a bias of some sort. Drawing conclusions from flawed data = FTL.



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