> "<i>We were surprised that respondents weren’t better at identifying the gender behind the writings, and that so many were wrong on several of the questions. The participants who submitted handwriting samples were blind to the purpose of the survey, and the samples therefore weren’t intentionally misleading. Perhaps the average person simply isn’t as good a judge as expected.</i>"<p>Perhaps being spammed with a survey wall blocking the content that the user seeks, until they complete a survey (which is what survata does), causes many people to not try very hard. And perhaps the more technically sophisticated users who view survey walls as a signal for low quality, spammy content, simply hit the back button.