Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 01:38:33 07/18/00
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On July 18, 2000 at 04:00:37, Graham Laight wrote: >On July 17, 2000 at 23:04:29, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: > >>On July 17, 2000 at 19:02:31, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>Can you elaborate a bit what is "conspicuously biased" on the questions >>>of the poll? >>> >>>Ed >> >>If it's the same poll I saw a while ago, I think he refers to the fact that >>the poll steers you towards the answers you (the poller) want to get. >> >>Baldo. > >Correct! > >Also, because the poll is conducted on the Rebel site, one would expect a bias >towards Rebel in the questions that ask for subjective preferences between >programs (and the poll results look to me as if they are indeed biased in this >way). I simply rely on the fact that people have a brain. In fact the beginning of the poll people are encouraged to vote "abstain" in case of doubt. Please find the text below. Ed We realize the CHESS 2010 POLL is quite technical, please feel free to chose the ABSTAIN option in case you doubt as the number of ABSTAIN votes reflects the difficulty of the specific question so it is important information too. >-g
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