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The weird world of online, opt-in surveys

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Sites like SurveyJunkie and Swagbucks offer money in exchange for taking surveys, which doesn't always produce the best quality data. Researchers use online opt-in surveys all the time. Should they?   Search around for ways to make a little extra money online, and you might find yourself at one of many sites that offer to pay you to take surveys.   There's Swagbucks, SurveyJunkie, InboxDollars, and KashKick, for instance. On each of these sites, users are paid small amounts of money for completing surveys, playing games, or making purchases.    The surveys on these sites are "opt-in" surveys, meaning that participants are actively choosing to take them, rather than researchers pulling a random sample of a population to poll, as professional pollsters do.   Unsurprisingly, opt-in surveys can lead to some skewed results: Earlier this week, Pew Res...
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Axios Pro Rata: Private equity strikes back

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Plus, corrugated consolidation. | Thursday, September 07, 2023   Open in app View in browser     Axios Pro Rata By Dan Primack · Sep 07, 2023     Top of the Morning Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios   Private equity got almost everything it wanted when securities regulators watered down their new fund oversight rules. Now it wants the rest. Driving the news: Six trade groups, including the American Investment Council and National Venture Capital Association, last week filed a lawsuit seeking to block the SEC from implementing its Private Fund Advisers rule. Their basic argument, put forth by lead attorney Eugene Scalia, is that the SEC overstepped its authority to regulate private funds. Retail investors are novices in need of protection, but limited partners in private funds are sophisticates backe...
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