tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post4889869983273108019..comments2024-02-23T04:39:49.329-05:00Comments on Conversations in Klal: Some Thoughts on PollsProfKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-23038919435717696182008-06-16T08:50:00.000-04:002008-06-16T08:50:00.000-04:00You are right ProfK that blogger does not allow mu...You are right ProfK that blogger does not allow multiple votes from one computer for any given poll. On this poll my wife and I could both vote because you had two separate polls up. On other polls we have to pool our answers. An example of what you mean by a poll being limited.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-28776107714120096542008-06-16T06:47:00.000-04:002008-06-16T06:47:00.000-04:00Bas Melech,Blogger allows you to answer more than ...Bas Melech,<BR/>Blogger allows you to answer more than one question in a poll if the poster checks off that option. But no single respondent is allowed to vote more than once on any given question. If you try the "change my vote" option comes up. Your original vote is subtracted from where you put it and is now counted towards which ever answer you are changing to, even if it is the same answer. Blogger keeps track of the ISP ID# that a vote is coming from--only one voting session per ID#. Technically this means that if two people share a computer only one of them is going to be able to vote in a blogger poll.ProfKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-20054100470806959742008-06-16T02:22:00.000-04:002008-06-16T02:22:00.000-04:00(I could be wrong, but I think that when Blogger t...(I could be wrong, but I think that when Blogger tallies the amount of responses, they count how many answers were given, not how many people answered. So since you allowed people to check more than one answer in your polls, your "29/52" might not mean that 29 of 52 distinct people said that.)Bas~Melechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01511197551248863790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-52486513966133095712008-06-15T17:03:00.000-04:002008-06-15T17:03:00.000-04:00Sara,A healthy dose of skepticism (yes, healthy) i...Sara,<BR/>A healthy dose of skepticism (yes, healthy) is necessary when dealing with polls and statistics. Some polls are more flawed than others; some statistics are more flawed than others. If you know where the flaws occured you can use any results taking that into consideration. Yes, we need statistics; no, we don't have to believe every word.ProfKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-71134212574821099502008-06-13T15:03:00.000-04:002008-06-13T15:03:00.000-04:00Aren't you basically saying that we shouldn't trus...Aren't you basically saying that we shouldn't trust any poll or any statistics? If we don't trust any of them then on what basis are we going to make decisions that require the results of polls or of statistics?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-53119763358353587552008-06-13T13:01:00.000-04:002008-06-13T13:01:00.000-04:00Selena,Frequently pollsters use this type of redun...Selena,<BR/>Frequently pollsters use this type of redundant-seeming question to check on how "truthful" respondents are being. They reason, as you did, that #1 and #5 are similar in nature.If you answered question #1 then you would also answer question #5. Now how might the pollsters use the descrepancy in answering when examining the poll? One pollster might point out that people are either lying about #1 or are lying about #5, that people say that the sex of the medical practitioner doesn't matter but it really does. Or you might also have the pollster that takes either question out of the context of the poll and uses it to "prove" something.ProfKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-19426112480213815822008-06-13T12:10:00.000-04:002008-06-13T12:10:00.000-04:00I filled out the poll and I didn't check the "in a...I filled out the poll and I didn't check the "in an emergency I would use a medical practioner of either sex" because I picked #1 (I never choose a medical practioner based on sex). I thought the second was reduntant.Selenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01131171115871320579noreply@blogger.com