Survey mistakes Twin Falls for Sioux Falls

[ccharles000]

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- In a case of mistaken identity, nearly 700 households in the southern Idaho city of Twin Falls were recently asked what they thought about the services of a city in South Dakota.

Twin Falls hired a Colorado-based firm in July to survey 1,200 households and gather input on services provided by the city, such as police, parks and animal control.

The Times News reports that the first round of the five-page surveys sent out by National Research Center, Inc., did not have errors, but the second batch asked residents what they thought about services in Sioux Falls.

Center President Thomas Miller says the mix-up is embarrassing for the company and shouldn't have happened.

The company is sending new surveys to the Twin Falls households that received the Sioux Falls questions.

http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-oct1009-survey_mix-up.203460c88.html

[Orrex]

1. They should Sioux the pants off of that survey company

[ccharles000]

3. funny

[lapfog_1]

2. I guess they were lucky not to get a survey for "Bedford Falls"... - n/t

[treestar]

4. This might not have happened before the computer age

Getting the whole thing set up and running must have been "too easy." :rofl:

[hfojvt]

5. you say Sioux, I say Twin

More understandably perhaps an AP headline read "South Dakota man murders ..." and the story was from San Diego. So somebody used the abbreviation SD for San Diego and somebody else logically concluded that it meant South Dakota and put that in the headline.

[Thothmes]

6. Government working at its best.

[lapfog_1]

7. Umm. This was done by a private contractor. - n/t