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Do you trust internet polls?
Yes.
  
0% [ 0 ]
No.
  
72% [ 13 ]
What's an internet?
  
28% [ 5 ]
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yovargas
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Posted: Tue 31 Jul , 2007 12:03 am
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Science at its finest.


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Jude
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Those poll options are too straightforward. It's waaaay too easy to not accidentally vote for the wrong option that you didn't want to not vote for.

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“And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”


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I vote for the puppies. :love:

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Meaning the shamelessly stolen ones?

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“And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”


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Jude
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They've been dognapped? :Q

This is a job for...

*drum roll*

cemthinae!!!!!!

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Internet polls are not representative of a random segment of the population because people self-select as to whether they are interested enough in the subject to participate. This automatically weeds out those who don't care about the subject, or think it doesn't apply to them or think the topic is silly.

Therefore, you get an answer of over 50% in the "do demons exist?" poll, because only those people who are interested in demons actually click on the link to take the poll.

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Nienor SharkAttack
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Also, you miss out on those who don't read for example newspapers on the Internet - and those who don't have/use the Internet at all.

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No. I don't trust anything on the net, too easily distorted.

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Lily Rose
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I don't trust anybodies statistics because you can skew them any way you want.

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How can I trust one when my opinion is wrongfully not represented? "Broccoli and Carrots"

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Hey, wait a minute. Is this an Internet poll? <shifty eyes>


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Hey, wait a minute. Is this an Internet poll? <shifty eyes>


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Self-selecting samples, as Maria notes, are statistical bad news. :)

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yovargas
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laureanna wrote:
Hey, wait a minute. Is this an Internet poll? <shifty eyes>
I have no idea what you mean.

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TheEllipticalDisillusion
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I rebuff your agreement with MH, Ax. My answer is not self-serving at all. Everyone likes broccoli and carrots. What was the poll about again?

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I vote for the cannibalistic puppies.

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