Re: Sample size - How big should it be?

On Jan 29, 4:26 am, Rob <u...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At work when I am required to participate in a survey that is not
anonymous there are certain questions that I will not answer truthfully.

How can they follow up if they do not know who I am?

Which brings up the issue of being able to break the anonymity.
Imagine you work in a small company and they survey the employees
anonymously, and find an answer they don't like; how hard could it be
to figure out who in the company might be male, 40-45 years old,
white, makes $50-75,000 and hired in 2005? I've seen that done in one
place I worked. For "good causes" of course, just to pursue the issue
to a more satisfactory solution, not for punitive purposes. But a
promise of anonymity should be, but isn't always, a guarantee.
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