Mastodawn

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/germany-pupils-strike-rearmament-policy-protest-boycott. "The #protest reflects unrest felt in #homes & #classrooms across #Germany... since Friedrich Merz’s government brought in hotly contested changes to #military #service #policy, arguing the country needed to boost its #defences amid growing #threats from #Russia after its full-scale #invasion of #Ukraine... #mandatory #questionnaires are being sent to all 18-year-olds to assess their willingness & suitability for military service." In other words - #conscription!

More than 50,000 pupils expected to strike over German rearmament policy

Organisers of nationwide protest say its aim is to stop the government turning young Germans into ‘cannon fodder’

The Guardian

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur Dec 14

Dear Vendor telling me that my recent experience with your corporation is important to you and asking me to fill out a questionnaire about it:
My experience may have been great, but now that you're asking for my time without anything in return, I'm reminded of how you've been cheapening and degrading the service or product for which I pay you for quite a while.
Kindly pay the people in your employ that actually deal with the public more, and your C-Suite executives less.
Oh, and pay some fucking taxes while you're at it.
Your request for me to fill out a form that I have no way of knowing is anything more than a public relations ploy is insulting to me and degrading to your employees.
I might just put this rant in the comment section of your questionnaire, if there is one, and leave the rest of it blank.
#Corporations #Questionnaires #Capitalism #Satisfaction #Rant

Hacker News Jul 10, 2025

Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms
https://www.ikiform.com/
#ycombinator #form_builder #online_forms #surveys #questionnaires #open_source #typeform_alternative #google_forms_alternative #form_creator #survey_tool #data_collection #Ikiform #form_software #custom_forms #interactive_forms #form_analytics

Ikiform

Create beautiful, interactive forms with Ikiform - An open-source alternative to Typeform and Google Forms. Build surveys, collect responses, and analyze data effortlessly.

Ikiform

N-gated Hacker News Jun 24, 2025

Excalidraw finally got its SOC 2 sticker, 🤡 not because it cares about #security, but because filling out #endless #questionnaires is #hard work! 📝🔒 Now they can rest easy until the next shiny #certification we collectively pretend to understand. 🚀🎉
https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/excalidraw-soc2 #Excalidraw #SOC2 #work #HackerNews #ngated

Excalidraw+ Is Now SOC 2 Certified

Excalidraw+ is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! Here's how we got there — the tools, policies, infra changes, and what we learned along the way.

Excalidraw+

Hacker News May 30, 2025

Behavioral responses of domestic cats to human odor
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324016
#ycombinator #Cats #Animal_behavior #Personality #Smell #Animal_sociality #Dogs #Impulsivity #Questionnaires

Behavioral responses of domestic cats to human odor

People all around the world live with cats and cats engage in many social behaviors toward their owners. Olfaction is one of the most important sensory abilities in cats, yet its role in recognizing humans remains unclear. In this study, we assessed the role and characteristics of olfaction in the discrimination of known or unknown humans by cats using ethological methods. Whether cats exhibit a lateralization of nostril use in response to a variety of olfactory stimuli, exposure experience, inter alia, was investigated. Cats were simultaneously presented with three odor stimuli: that of a known person (owner), an unknown person, and a blank control. Responses to the cat 2 scale (Feline Five) and the cat–owner relationship scale (CORS) were collected from cat owners through questionnaires. It was observed that cats spent a substantially longer time sniffing the odor of an unknown person than that of a known person, indicating the use of their sense of smell to distinguish between heterospecific (human) individuals. While responding to odor stimuli from unknown humans, the cats displayed marked lateralization in the use of one nostril or another. An association was observed between the first odor the cat sniffed among known, unknown, and blanks and the personality score. A strong correlation was found between the number of repetitive sniffing odors and personality scores in male cats. No association was evident between the cat’s behavior and the cat–owner relationship score. Rubbing of their faces against an object immediately after sniffing it was observed and thus a possible relationship between the olfactory exploration and subsequent rubbing (odor-marking) behavior in cats is postulated. However, this relationship warrants further investigation along with the theory of whether cats are able to recognize a specific person from olfactory cues.

Nicolas Clairis May 27, 2025

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00427-1

challenging paper for computational psychiatry, but it's luckily not just a black/white picture with possibly state being better captured by behavioral tasks

"Questionnaire-based measures can provide little insights on cognitive mechanisms as they rely only on verbal and mnesic processes. By contrast, behavioral measures and computationally derived parameters
may go beyond explicit processes and capture more accurately states than traits, which may be useful in informing therapeutic strategies in the short run (for example, capturing state impulsivity that may help to adapt a psychotropic treatment when facing a patient with suicidal ideation). Altogether, our results represent a cautionary tale about the utilization of behavioral tasks and model parameters as tools for investigating inter-individual differences along therapeutically or diagnostically relevant time windows, and about the challenges facing computational phenotyping for diagnosis and prognosis."

#computationalPsychiatry #neuroscience #testRetestReliability #behavior #questionnaires #psychology #neuroscience

Behavioral, computational and self-reported measures of reward and punishment sensitivity as predictors of mental health characteristics - Nature Mental Health

Reinforcement learning task-based behavioral and computational measures displayed low test–retest reliability at the individual level. Also in contrast to self-assessed personality measures, behavioral and computational measures were poor predictors of mental health measures, representing a challenge for computational psychiatry.

Nature

bsdm Feb 4, 2025

Hop !

Je suis à la recherche
d'un outil
#logiciel ou #serviceenligne
#opensource
simple et funky
pour faire des #quiz, des #qcm, des #questionnaires en tout genre...

À diffuser auprès de mon équipe suite aux ateliers de sensibilisation #numérique que j'anime.

Des idées ?

Mission Education & Communs Numériques Mar 22, 2024

Utilisation de Limesurvey V6 : un outil pour réaliser des questionnaires

https://videos.cemea.org/w/2HCadnMj73BadttHzCU7Wp

Utilisation de Limesurvey V6 : un outil pour réaliser des questionnaires

PeerTube

John Arnold Feb 16, 2024

_The Evening Post_, 17 Feb 1923:
A POLITICAL QUESTIONNAIRE
A feature of the General #Elections… seems to have been the women’s #questionnaires issued to all who stood for Parliamentary positions. It is mentioned in “Time and Tide” that the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries issued a questionnaire dealing with equal #franchise for men and women; the importance of carrying out the Education Act of 1918; equal opportunities for men and women in the Civil Service, and the retention of women police. “On the whole,” says the writer, “the replies have been most satisfactory, a fact which throws some light upon the question of what candidates have considered to be a wise election policy, although it does not necessarily tell us how much members of Parliament will accomplish. But although most of the members have hastened to answer all the questions favourably… exercising great care not to antagonise the women’s vote, there are a good many who have hedged, and a trifle clumsily. Mr. Clifford B. Edgar’s reply to the question… of votes for women on the same terms as men…—‘… millions of women now possess the franchise who would not have it if they were men.’ To attempt comment would be to paint the lily.”
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230217.2.140
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Women #Equality #Politics #MPs

PhoenixSerenity Mar 17, 2023

(“The #results largely supported the #hypotheses , as #hostile #sexism and #symbolic #racism were both #associated with greater #dislike of newer #characters .”
The #researchers #recruited #SelfProfessed #StarWars #fans from various online fan hangouts – subreddits devoted to memes and ships, for example – and sent them #questionnaires about their experience within the #fandom .)

https://www.iflscience.com/sexist-racist-abuse-against-star-wars-actors-fueled-by-sexism-and-racism-study-reveals-68011

Sexist, Racist Abuse Against Star Wars Actors Fueled By Sexism And Racism, Study Reveals

You're KIDDING

IFLScience