I think they are seeking persons of color.
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I filled it in. Like all multiple guess questionnaires there were ambiguities (it wasn’t clear when asking about CGMs that the questions were specific to CGMs) and there were some things that had no answer; I sanitize with 95% ethanol but the only opportunity was “alcohol pads”. You canne buy 95% ethanol in Stanford.
I’ve been using this sticky stuff for a very long time by their etiolated metric. 6.5 years? That’s barely pre-COVID! I guess I’m very careful, while I might be tempted I don’t just slap it on and hope, though I completely sympathize with those who do, I would were I 30 years younger.
The survey covers all these issues, like it asks for age for those of us who have crusty skin that we have finally worked out how to take care of (I don’t sunburn, despite identifying as a pale puce sort of colour). Thank my mother than I’m not a redhead or I would probably be dead by now.
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Just took the survey and I agree with you, John. A lot of ambiguity, and no way to be more specific. Answered as best I could. Am left wondering what, exactly, are they studying?
That’s a question I always ask, though I more phrase it as, “What do they want to be told?” Most of the time a questionnaire on the internet is a way of getting a particular answer to a particular question. Some of the time it is a way to coerce a set of answers to support a general viewpoint.
I have moderate respect for Stanford; while the people there can be irksome they live in a very privileged world which values the kind of things (in general) that I value. All the same I couldn’t work out what the agenda is and every questionnaire has an agenda.
So in this case I just answered the questionnaire. I couldn’t work out the agenda and I sort of trust Stanford researchers. I know I’m only wrong 70% of the time.
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