UK MNer aged 50 or over? Take our survey - £100 voucher to be won

[JustineBMumsnet]

We're speaking at an event about the over 50s, and we'd like to find out more about the lifestyles of those over 50 before we do so.

This survey is open to all UK MNers and GNers aged 50 or older.

All who complete the survey will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer or GNer will win a £100 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list).

Click here to complete the survey.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ & GNHQ

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Where is the survey?
The link just takes me to the terms and conditions blurb.
An actual link would be helpful...unless I'm missing something here

Oh you've just actually added the link while I was writing that last post...
Hmmm

Apologies @FawnDrench - we realised we hadn't included the link in the OP just after we started promoting the thread!

Done

done, but I can't see what useful information you will get from those questions. No option to say you dress for comfort and where you are comparing to years ago it would help to quantify or ask why. The over 50s are not one homogenous lump.

I've just clicked thinking it was about the cookies you eat! was going to say chocolate chip. Bit disappointed now.

The over 50s are not one homogenous lump

They are to MNHQ - posters have pulled them up on this many a time but they keep doing these shit surveys for over 50s.

Sorry wrong thread - no co-ordination!

Yayy, a survey that I am still just too young to take!

What odd questions!
If you think the answers to those questions reflect what defines half the female adult population, I'm really not sure you are qualified to speak at any event

That was a waste of 5 minutes.
Have you even met anyone over 50 ?

Done, not bothered by questions.

The questions are, in general, completely uninteresting to me.

I assume MN is asking them so they can sell more advertising/ sponsorship to beauty companies.

But really MN, do you think this is what we want?

Completed survey

What peculiar questions. I gave up when you started quizzing me about my sex life. Anyway, I don't agree with defining people according to what age they happen to be. This reeks of ageism to me - something I encounter a lot on Mumsnet.

The questions seem entirely designed to work out how to sell stuff up me. Beauty, fashion , food, cars, holidays..... the sum of a woman’s lifestyle, eh? (Abandonrd as I got bored filling it in, and am fed with with being ‘marketed at’.

The lifestyle of O-50s?

Ask me about my career, my politics, how I have managed work and family having started out before the Equal Pay act came into force. Ask me especially about ageism. How it is that my generation fought Section 28, for Paternity Leave, fought against institutional racism after the McPherson Report, went on Anti Nazi League marches .... and yet we face daily ageism on MN, in the workplace, the job market, health provision.... and no one gives a flying toss about ageism. Tne one thing we all know is that, barring a worse date, we will grow old.

Do something about that, MN, and stop treating the O50s as just another herd of cash cows to be targeted in marketing campaigns.

Actually I am so irritated by this, that you are speaking at some unspecified ‘event’ about O50s in tne topics of skincare, fashion and food that I am de-registering.

I have been here since DadsLib used to tell us what upmarket handbags his wife had, I was here when T* ran off with married C**K, and when Cod was EdgarCat. (I have changed my log in a few times during the security breaches.).

AIBU and your vacuous commercialism have taken their toll.

It does feel like an exercise is selling

As surveys for the over50s have overtly been in the past.

I notice you do not target other age groups in this way (I can't remember one for those in their 20s or 30s or 40s at all).

Single most important thing you could do at an event such as you describe is to challenge the whole underlying mindset, encourage people to ditch their ageism, stop thinking of over 50s as a homogeneous group. There's probably greater variation than other decades (if you simply have to use an age approach).

Gently undermining the organisers for their approach has to be handled carefully (s unnot wat the rude) but it is something that really needs to be challenged.

BTW - I didn't fill in the survey because the quality I value above all others wasn't"on the list and there was no 'other' option.

And the rest all seemed to be about make up.

And the questions that weren't, were so free of context that it all seemed very flimsy. No opportunity for a responder to say why an an apllies. All very superficial and I don't want to be part of that.

I gave up at 'skincare routine'.

Free to choose own gender?
Skin care regime?
Rimmel?
See also PillowofSociety response above.
Too intrusive re info asked, sorry, not for me.