New Poll (shock!) - Before the Big Night
Fri, 6 Jan 2006, 07:15 pmcrgwllms27 posts in thread
New Poll (shock!) - Before the Big Night
Fri, 6 Jan 2006, 07:15 pmYes, it's about time the poll was updated.
New topic, relevant to WA Finley Awards but open to anyone else who has an opinion.
Do you think nominees for a Community Theatre awards night should be announced before the event?
The Poll-tergeist
New topic, relevant to WA Finley Awards but open to anyone else who has an opinion.
Do you think nominees for a Community Theatre awards night should be announced before the event?
The Poll-tergeist
Re: Suspicious Polls
Mon, 9 Jan 2006, 05:50 pmDean Schulze wrote:
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> Is it possible (Grant, Crg, or anyone with more computer nous
> than me.....which is most of the population over 10 years
> old) to manipulate poll results? There seems to have been a
> large number of votes all voting the same way in a short
> space of time.
Yes, it's entirely possible. A couple of years ago I completely manipulated the results of a stagnant poll as a joke, which led to Grant giving me the keys to the poll engine so I could play with it more productively.
Poll results are a guide only, to be used purely for entertainment purposes. There is nothing particularly accurate or definitive about the statistics they appear to indicate. With that in mind, they can still be useful as a rough guide to current opinion.
If the results WERE tampered with, it still gives an indication of the strength of feeling surrounding a particular response. However, I think that's actually unlikely, and find it interesting that the question of suspicion should even be considered. To me it suggests a degree of defensiveness when a particular result is felt strongly enough about.
The Poll-tergeist
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> Is it possible (Grant, Crg, or anyone with more computer nous
> than me.....which is most of the population over 10 years
> old) to manipulate poll results? There seems to have been a
> large number of votes all voting the same way in a short
> space of time.
Yes, it's entirely possible. A couple of years ago I completely manipulated the results of a stagnant poll as a joke, which led to Grant giving me the keys to the poll engine so I could play with it more productively.
Poll results are a guide only, to be used purely for entertainment purposes. There is nothing particularly accurate or definitive about the statistics they appear to indicate. With that in mind, they can still be useful as a rough guide to current opinion.
If the results WERE tampered with, it still gives an indication of the strength of feeling surrounding a particular response. However, I think that's actually unlikely, and find it interesting that the question of suspicion should even be considered. To me it suggests a degree of defensiveness when a particular result is felt strongly enough about.
The Poll-tergeist
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