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Polls are Made Up
(and 103% of Them Don't Even Make Sense)
Al Sweigart
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9. Ice cream poll:
• Favorite flavor:
–Chocolate: 2
–Vanilla: 700
–Pat Buchanan: 72,012,495,538,528
• Results:
–Pat Buchanan
20. • People who fill out polls want their opinion to
be publicly counted.
30. You can’t trust the poller.
• It’s trivial for admins to change the votes.
31. You can’t trust the poller.
• It’s trivial for admins to change the votes.
33. • There is no such thing as a CREDIBLE
public web poll.
–Time Magazine “marble cake” hack.
39. “I would remind anyone who
doubts the results that this is an
Internet poll. Doubting the
results is kind of the point.”
Time.com's Entertainment
section managing editor,
Josh Tyrangiel
41. Web polls are not scientific.
• Not a good, representational sample of any
population…
42. Web polls are not scientific.
• Not a good, representational sample of any
population…
…except people who
have filled out web poll.
48. Not just web polls.
• Reddit, Digg, etc.
• Blog comments.
• Amazon reviews.
• Ebay seller/buyer reputation.
• Wikipedia.