Forum Overview :: Tansin A. Darcos's Alter Ego :: Re: Where does Family Feud get the answers to the "We surveyed 100 people..."?

[quote name="Applied Research-West"][quote name="Tansin A. Darcos"]Next, they can hire a telephone survey company to randomly ask enough people to get 100 answers. The company doing the polling might not even say for whom they are asking.[/quote] <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121391284883989979">This is correct.</a> [quote name="The Wall Street Journal's Carl Bialik"]The results also can reflect the name recognition more than the inherent merit of the answers. Or perhaps I'm just rationalizing one "Family Feud" poll last year in which The Wall Street Journal took third place when people were asked to name the most respected newspaper in America (behind the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times -- and tied with the National Enquirer). Or, for that matter, the third-place finish for "Carl" among boys' names starting with "C," behind Charles and Christopher/Chris.[/quote] Neither answer should've made the cut, so long as 'The Washington Post' and 'Cameron' exist. Source: my opinion.[/quote]