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NOT a public poll!
- Thread starter jrklaus
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Polls? Polls? Me?
I have never been asked..(with this one exception) to be part of a poll. It always seems to me that the "pollies" are tilted a bit towards the left. I rarely put much faith in them...as the most trivial of occurrences will result in a 30% jump in opinion.
Thanks for asking though...
I have never been asked..(with this one exception) to be part of a poll. It always seems to me that the "pollies" are tilted a bit towards the left. I rarely put much faith in them...as the most trivial of occurrences will result in a 30% jump in opinion.
Thanks for asking though...
Macgulf, I haven't been part of many either (although I did end up in a few running up to the 2004 election). But I was asking about the ones here on TFL. I've seen a number of polls lately here on the forum that make the replies public. I was just curious to see how many people don't respond to those because the responses are public. If the percentage of no's is high, those making polls may want to stop making them public in the interest of getting a larger response.
Or maybe not. I am mostly just curious.
Personally, at the risk of sounding paranoid, I usually don't respond to public polls.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean the world isn't out to get you.
Or maybe not. I am mostly just curious.Personally, at the risk of sounding paranoid, I usually don't respond to public polls.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean the world isn't out to get you.