Paid Survey Reviews - Platitudes Versus Meaningful Metrics

Many, many people get paid for taking surveys every month.
Making money with paid surveys is easy, you set your own hours, work from home - in many ways it is ideal.
Some of these provide useful information.

First there are the "straw men" paid survey review sites that supposedly check out several paid survey sites before making recommendations.

Then there are the quick opinion, nothing-to-back-it-up sites with several large paid survey sites recommended, almost at random.
Many of these look suspiciously like they were set up by the paid survey sites recommended there!

Neither of these two types of paid survey review site has contact information, privacy policy, etc.
You know that a site is shallow and temporary when these things are missing.
Nothing wrong with that, but it leaves the question, compared to what? And when? Maybe they WERE good at one time, but now? Recently?

Still this type of site offers recommendations based on personal experience, which is something.

But all in all, there are just opinions, nothing firm, nothing objective or measurable.
They look at a number of online paid survey sites, which they name, and proceed to make objective comparisons.
 They look at the strength and credibility of these guarantees.

Probably the most important metric of all of the information about paid survey sites is the opinions that their past clients hold about them.
  Low refund rates mean happy clients.

Most paid survey review sites present opinions and soft data, with no way to check their "data" or know whether it was valid or not.
 Sites that present hard, objective, verifiable metrics.