Thread: The humor of Polls

Ah, political science. Such a wonderful drug to instigate thought.

This post is doing the exact same thing you're talking about. Word your post correctly and no one can deny what you're saying. So how bout people stop making threads that start shit.

it can be the case but at times polls can give you the same answer, knowing the polls you are talking about, my votes ended up being the same just worded differently.

Still not even a political science thing, i can guarantee you at least 90%+ of Marketing Majors would know how to create a good poll (due to the fact for any marketing research, you want to make sure you remove any chance of influences the vote. Influence it and you have a good chance of having your product flop because you "created" numbers of support and not true feelings)

Plus, anything i've learned is a closed ended question will always give you little insight. I.e. Should abortion be legal? Sure it will tell you if people think it should be, but not why or if only in some cases but not others etc etc.

Originally Posted by Saltspring

If the questions are carefully chosen the result will be what the poll taker wants it to be, watching the polls today has made me very aware of how real that is. It is infact very disturbing as there are 2 polls that were asking essentially the same overall question, if I had voted in them my votes would have been contradictory. Something one really has to keep in mind while taking a poll, how much is the poll affecting your opinion due to the limitations the poll taker has put in the questions.

that's because the first poll was more of a patriotism poll, intended to get you to go for the easy "america, fuck yeah" answer (pursue or die trying), which is a mantra, a motto, a slogan, a creed for TTP....who WOULDN'T vote for that?

......but that creed is not the rule, specifically. most especially since that phrase is followed by paragraphs and paragraphs of descritpions of what it means, and specifically sentences like "we are not telling you to run into your deaths".

xplodr's poll was made to make people look stupid. My poll is asking very simple questions. Would you slay the CT, or would you not.

3 easy ones. 3 hard ones.

Xplodr's poll was 2 stupid choices and TTP's creed.......of course the creed gets 98% of the vote. Such is why it was so god damn infuriating that peopel jump on it like "oh look at the poll, the community has spoken".

come on.

This is true of just about any polls, be they presidential polls, political party polls, a server change poll, or what dog you like better poll.

Originally Posted by sL!ppY

You speak the truth and yet while big dogs poll is just as bad as xplodr's, he still trashes Xplodr's and seems to think his polls results are more valid and give him a "victory".

someones got a big head...

Pretty sad, slippy. weren't you once a CSS admin?

oh yeah......

http://www.texasteamplayers.com/inde....msg192142#new

typical. yet another disgruntled clan punk, incapable of doing their job without letting their ego and clan bias get in the way.

man.....