{"id":20168,"date":"2015-07-16T21:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T01:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=20168"},"modified":"2015-07-16T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T01:32:28","slug":"in-which-i-answer-five-questions-about-goosebumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/16\/in-which-i-answer-five-questions-about-goosebumps\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I answer five questions about Goosebumps"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am generally not a survey taker. If the phone rings, and Caller ID shows me that Nielsen is on the line, I don’t answer. If the number looks like someone I know, and when I answer, someone with a survey has slipped through, I end the call politely but firmly. And if I don’t recognize the number at all, I simply don’t answer.<\/p>\n

However, when no human is involved, and the survey is on Twitter, for some reason …<\/p>\n

\"TwitterSurvey071615\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… I’m intrigued.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll take the survey. But I’ll at least check it out. Perhaps because it’s easier to click away a browser tab than it is to hang up the phone. All of which means that when a survey invitation popped up on my Twitter feed a short while ago, I clicked through. And for the first time ever, discovered a book-related survey.<\/p>\n

Sort of.<\/p>\n

Apparently, somebody’s very interested in whether or not I’ve seen the trailer for the upcoming Goosebumps<\/em> movie, based on the novels of R. L. Stine, and has hired Twitter to find out. And since I thought you<\/em> might be interested in the fact somebody else<\/em> is very interested, here are the five questions I just answered.<\/p>\n

\"GoosebumpsSurvey1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GoosebumpsSurvey2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GoosebumpsSurvey3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GoosebumpsSurvey4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GoosebumpsSurvey5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I doubt my answers made them very happy, though. Because, no, I haven’t<\/em> seen the trailer.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it … that might not have been the point of the survey after all. Because maybe they didn’t really want to know whether I’d seen the trailer. Maybe what they wanted was to instill in me a desire<\/em> to see the trailer.<\/p>\n

But if so, if that was the hidden reason for the survey behind the purported reason for the survey, learning that I still<\/em> have no interest probably wouldn’t make them happy either …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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