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Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
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10-30-2005 08:19
Not my idea, but I simply couldn't help myself. I must make this poll.
It was just too good to pass up.
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Garnet Psaltery
Walking on the Moon
Join date: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 913
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10-30-2005 11:01
I told myself to vote a certain way. Um, may I have the buttered toast without the crustaceans?
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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10-30-2005 12:42
They have meaning, but like a gumball machine (if you own it), you decide how full it gets and what flavors come out.
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Bertha Horton
Fat w/ Ice Cream
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 835
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10-30-2005 16:07
I voted for all of them in case one of them was true.
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Seth Kanahoe
political fugue artist
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,220
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10-30-2005 16:18
What kind of opinion polls? Ones like this one? where you ask a selectively-biased group of people to respond to a suggestive question? - the same sort of thing that CNN, Fox, and talk radio shows ask you to do on a daily basis? Or ones that are designed with rigorous parameters in mind, with objective and quantified oversight, to be used as a data mine for all kinds of information-gathering functions - something like the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan might do, or the MIT polling system? No criticism here, and no suggestion that ISR's methods are better than SL's polling function. Just curious.  |
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Beclamide Neurocam
3.14159265
Join date: 8 Oct 2005
Posts: 70
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10-30-2005 16:28
Damn, opinion polls are meaningless is in the lead and I was trying to skew the results
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Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
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10-31-2005 00:42
From: Seth Kanahoe What kind of opinion polls? Ones like this one? where you ask a selectively-biased group of people to respond to a suggestive question? - the same sort of thing that CNN, Fox, and talk radio shows ask you to do on a daily basis? Or ones that are designed with rigorous parameters in mind, with objective and quantified oversight, to be used as a data mine for all kinds of information-gathering functions - something like the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan might do, or the MIT polling system? No criticism here, and no suggestion that ISR's methods are better than SL's polling function. Just curious. You are right, I could have been *much* more clear. I could have begged the question a bit more, and allowed a 'pie' option. Plus, even with the best poll in the world, who's to say I've got the brains to understand what the results mean? In this poll, the toast comes with the crustacea, the only possibly inferred choice is the species of crustacea. I suppose in the limit of really small ones, that may result in a seemingly creatureless (albeit shrimp-scented) piece of buttered toast.
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