>> People have been following you around on the internet since day 1.
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>>Could we have done the same by asking you intrusive questions about your life and your habits? Yes, but why when there are a dozen places this data can be obtained already, publicly available, from independent third parties that have no agenda.
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>>Are the numbers fishy? Numbers are always fishy. Statistics are easily produced, easily refuted. As an example, had I wanted to "cook" the local law data I could have just surveyed cities & towns where I knew the outcome, and given the totals. I didn't. I just went down a list of towns alphabetically.

Yes I understand that some data is available on the internet and that people use it. Survey's are not intrusive to those who chose to participate in them.

What I want to know is why you are trying to use data about your site users that, based on their use of your service, is unable to be verified. How does someone using this site allow for a 3rd party group to determine what their gender and age is, level of education (for head of household), and how many children live in said household ??? How can they provide such detailed information if they are not directly asking the people who are using this site? Dubious or not, you are in effect providing unrealistic data to an organization in the same manner that the USGS did when they made their so-called maps. It does not make it look good for this site.
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