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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How do those websites where you take surveys to earn money work? Why do they pay you for answering questions and how legit is it? Cause I’m seriously considering it to earn some on the side and don’t wanna get into anything dodgy

Edit: Sorry if this isn’t the appropriate sub to be asking but I just want it explained to my simply :)
gpt
Whether they are legit depends on the site in question, but the concept in and of itself is legit.

And the reason why they would pay you for answering questions is because they get paid (by companies / organisations / anyone that needs insight into the market and the thoughts of customers) to get a certain number of responses from certain types of people. As long as they pay you less money than they are getting from the companies, they are still coming out ahead.

And companies pay for these sort of surveys because this is how they find out what customers want / what they think about your brand / whether a certain commercial had an impact etc.