8 replies to this topic

[caliban]

test

[AgeVivo]

two, for sure!

[Shannon Vyff]

weird that 91.18% of people by the time I voted, voted "1"

I was in the 8% that voted two, I think "2" is always more useful ;-)

[rwac]

More people have voted in this poll, than have looked at this thread. I think it's fair to say that there's skulduggery afoot.

Edited by rwac, 11 January 2010 - 02:23 AM.

[sdxl]

What is a qyestion? Is this a typo?

[forever freedom]

numbers are all messed up.

weird that 91.18% of people by the time I voted, voted "1"

In my case, one was a closer mouse click, i suppose others voted 1 for similar reasons.

Edited by forever freedom, 11 January 2010 - 03:15 AM.

[AgeVivo]

What is a qyestion? Is this a typo?

it's a question at which most people answer "yes", or the first answer that they see.

[Annan]

I always look at replies before I vote in polls... hence I voted two.

[brokenportal]

Im glad you bumped this, because I was hoping I would remember to comment here, people think the numbers tell a tale in one way, but they really tell the tale in the other way. This was a test poll to fix the problem of pre loading poll results. 60 votes for 1 were automatically entered in. Most people actually chose 2.

I guess the moral this sends to me is to be extra sure to make sure you take polls with a grain of salt, like political polls and health polls and what not. Not because they can be manipulated so much as because you might form your opinions about the matter at hand based on innaccurate stats. In other words, you have to think about it yourself. You have to use your own good reasoning to come to conclusions, and if you dont have good reasoning then go and get some.

That sounds kind of bad. Thats not to say that people that made assumptions about this poll dont know how to think well, nor even that they meant strongly what they wrote here, this is just a reminder for us all I guess, myself included.