For one thing, you have no problem with the survey’s designer “presuming” that the other questions in the survey are valuable; why do you reverse that judgement only in the case of the question that troubles you?
For another, your rejection was based on the lack of a “not a clue” option, and you haven’t refuted my point that this option would be punting.
It’s possible that the reason I’m bothered by your dismissal is that I ended up spending more time on this one question than the rest of the survey altogether.
You would come across as more sincere if you just said “I couldn’t be bothered to answer that question”.
That sounds like a bad faith answer to me.
For one thing, you have no problem with the survey’s designer “presuming” that the other questions in the survey are valuable; why do you reverse that judgement only in the case of the question that troubles you?
For another, your rejection was based on the lack of a “not a clue” option, and you haven’t refuted my point that this option would be punting.
It’s possible that the reason I’m bothered by your dismissal is that I ended up spending more time on this one question than the rest of the survey altogether.
You would come across as more sincere if you just said “I couldn’t be bothered to answer that question”.