Dayalogs Blog
Articles, guides, and field notes about survey operations, research craft, and agentic workflows.
Better Screeners
A screener is the opening of a research conversation. Design it with enough care to define the right audience, and enough respect to make participation easy.
Scale Midpoints
The fight over four, five or seven points is a proxy for a harder question: is a neutral answer real information, or an escape hatch we should take away?
Bots vs Humans
For most of the web's history, surveys never had to prove a respondent was human. Now they do — and the obvious test stopped working.