Mastodawn

With TypePad going offline, Reg Baker's blog was about to vanish. He had asked me to be the digital trustee for it. Over the weekend, I moved it to WordPress. New URL: https://thesurveygeek.com #MRX #MarketResearch #SurveyGeek

The Survey Geek – Things I read and hear about how to do better research

jhenning Sep 26

OpenAI breaks down what 700 million users do across 2.6 billion daily GPT messages,
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/seven-things-we-learned-from-openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage/ #AI #OpenAI #MRX #AInews

What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

New study breaks down what 700 million users do across 2.6 billion daily GPT messages.

Ars Technica

jhenning Jul 20

Max Leibman Jul 15

Did you vote in this poll?

Please boost for a better sample.

Yes

45.6%

No

54.4%

Poll ended at Jul 16 at 12:26am.

jhenning Jul 6

Bin Chicken 🗑𓅠 Jun 28

Westpac Bank has achieved top marks in its latest customer satisfaction survey, with 100% of responses indicating an overwhelmingly positive option of the bank. It's unknown if anyone expressed a negative option or what happened to those surveys. It's a mystery.

#Westpac #WestpacBank

jhenning Jul 1

Irina Jun 28

Look what I found (while looking for something else, of course) #math #statistics #EarwormToday

Hmm

Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

You see this with:
• Code coverage targets → meaningless tests
• Story points → velocity games
• Bug counts → closing tickets without fixing root causes

The best metrics are multiple, in tension with each other, and measure teams—not individuals.

jhenning May 27

Lost a half hour this morning troubleshooting what the client was seeing, due to Google Sheets not supporting Excel's CONCAT(AH2:AN2)-style formula. For Google Sheets, you have to use CONCATENATE. https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3094123?hl=en #GoogleSheets #Excel

CONCATENATE function - Google Docs Editors Help

Appends strings to one another. Sample Usage CONCATENATE("Welcome", " ", "to", " ", "Sheets!") CONCATENATE(A1,A2,A3) CONCATENATE(A2:B7) Syntax CONCATENATE(string1, [string2, ...])