When you're reading the news, it can feel reassuring when the journalist backs up their claim with survey results. But not all surveys are equally trustworthy. Thankfully there are a few telltale signs of untrustworthy polls - as well as polls you can kind of trust. Yeah, it's a spectrum.

People use Grindr, Two Dots and Reddit of their own free will. But they don't really feel good about it, according to a joint survey by the mobile app Moment and the Center for Humane Technology.

By now, many of you will have already received your Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey. But what if you accidentally lost it? Or what if it never arrived in the post? Fortunately, it's possible to request a replacement form from the ABS. Here are the steps you need to take to receive a new form.

Most organisations have an annual or quarterly performance review structure in place where employees are assessed on how well they are doing at work, how they feel about their current role and their career goals. PeopleSpark believes these reviews are ineffective and has brought out a survey software that managers can use to gauge workers' attitude and performance on a more frequent basis.

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If you need to poll a big group of people, Typeform offers an intuitive interface and a lot of options, all for free.

Dick Smith has produced an office productivity study suggesting that we’re wasting two weeks each year sorting put paper jams and other technical glitches. That seems a little extreme to us -- two weeks equates to about 80 hours or close to 90 minutes per week. However, we’re also sure that dodgy equipment is causing some lost time in the office.

OK, that's an exaggeration. But in a survey of 6,500 people worldwide conducted by LinkedIn, agriculture industry workers were the top-ranked when asked if they completed all or most of their planned daily tasks.

There are plenty of sites which offer online survey functionality, but not all of them produce particularly attractive-looking results. Australian-developed Floq doesn't fall into that trap, produced attractive surveys that are easy to share and collate.

A survey of 5,200 Australians suggests that Adelaide is our "most liveable city", followed by Canberra and Melbourne. But what factors make a place liveable, and how can individual cities improve?

Today is not just a pretty neat date (20/10/2010), it's also World Statistics Day. While the day is designed to celebrate the collectors of national statistics, it's also a timely chance to remind ourselves of traps we often fall into when looking at survey data.

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