Interesting idea. Could be made into a poll to measure breath and variability of preference via a poll.
I will just plain take your points and make each into a poll and add some of my own. Everybody is invited to vote the their preference on a 1 to 5 scale (as many as you like, no need to consider all, the liste got quite long):
Count me among them. (My actual answer would have been between two poll options—a 4.5/5, so to speak, if I were rating it out of 5--so I selected the leftmost option in the first question and the second leftmost option in the second to average it out.)
Asking about people’s “preference on a 1 to 5 scale” (rather than, say, “their appreciation on a −2 to +2 scale” or “on a scale from strongly dislike to strongly like”), then seeing the next line begin “I like spicy things”, I nearly interpreted the far left to be “I like this only a little” and the far right to be “I like this a lot”.
I haven’t done the responsible thing and plotted these (or, indeed, done anything else besides take whatever correlation coefficient my software has seen fit to provide me with), so take with a grain of salt.
I like salty, sour, hot, spicy. I like sweet too, but not as much. I don’t mind a little bitter. In general, I like strong tastes: the very darkest chocolate, old strong cheese. I like almost all fruit, vegetables and fish, and most meat. I dislike bland, slippery things like fat, butter, new cheese, milk. I’ll eat ice cream, but I don’t really like it. The two most disgusting things I’ve ever tried to eat were tripe and cottage cheese. Natto was pretty disgusting too, but not as bad. I drink quite a lot of coffee, carbonated water and sugar-free soft drinks. Until recently, I used to drink a lot of alcohol too, but nowadays I’m saving that for parties (of which I don’t have many), as it has a lot of calories and is bad for my blood pressure.
I believe editing polls resets them, so there’s no reason to do it if it’s just an aesthetically unpleasant mistake that doesn’t hurt the accuracy of the results.
Unfortunately I expect this poll to noise itself out of usefulness. for example.
person A dislikes spicy and likes sweet.
Person B dislikes sweet and likes spicy.
this poll will show one vote 1 for sweet, one vote 5 for sweet, one vote 1 for spicy and one vote 5 for spicy.
There would have to be a form that can add another dimension to the results to see any correlation between results. This also limits people’s opportunity to comment on what might have caused them to have certain preferences...
Interesting idea. Could be made into a poll to measure breath and variability of preference via a poll.
I will just plain take your points and make each into a poll and add some of my own. Everybody is invited to vote the their preference on a 1 to 5 scale (as many as you like, no need to consider all, the liste got quite long):
[pollid:864]
[pollid:865]
[pollid:866]
[pollid:867]
[pollid:868]
I’m addicted to sugar [pollid:869]
[pollid:870]
[pollid:871]
[pollid:872]
[pollid:873]
[pollid:874]
[pollid:875]
[pollid:876]
[pollid:877]
[pollid:878]
[pollid:879]
[pollid:880]
[pollid:881]
[pollid:882]
[pollid:883]
[pollid:884]
[pollid:885]
[pollid:886]
[pollid:887]
[pollid:888]
[pollid:889]
[pollid:890]
[pollid:891]
[pollid:892]
[pollid:893]
[pollid:894]
[pollid:895]
[pollid:896]
[pollid:897]
[pollid:898]
[pollid:899]
[pollid:900]
[pollid:901]
[pollid:902]
It would appear that five people have different opinions of fruit juice and fruit juice.
Count me among them. (My actual answer would have been between two poll options—a 4.5/5, so to speak, if I were rating it out of 5--so I selected the leftmost option in the first question and the second leftmost option in the second to average it out.)
This sort of thing should really be done on all polls, just in case people have very small error bars around the results...
Asking about people’s “preference on a 1 to 5 scale” (rather than, say, “their appreciation on a −2 to +2 scale” or “on a scale from strongly dislike to strongly like”), then seeing the next line begin “I like spicy things”, I nearly interpreted the far left to be “I like this only a little” and the far right to be “I like this a lot”.
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I haven’t done the responsible thing and plotted these (or, indeed, done anything else besides take whatever correlation coefficient my software has seen fit to provide me with), so take with a grain of salt.
I like salty, sour, hot, spicy. I like sweet too, but not as much. I don’t mind a little bitter. In general, I like strong tastes: the very darkest chocolate, old strong cheese. I like almost all fruit, vegetables and fish, and most meat. I dislike bland, slippery things like fat, butter, new cheese, milk. I’ll eat ice cream, but I don’t really like it. The two most disgusting things I’ve ever tried to eat were tripe and cottage cheese. Natto was pretty disgusting too, but not as bad. I drink quite a lot of coffee, carbonated water and sugar-free soft drinks. Until recently, I used to drink a lot of alcohol too, but nowadays I’m saving that for parties (of which I don’t have many), as it has a lot of calories and is bad for my blood pressure.
Fruit juice is twinned. Can you edit these polls?
That’s no problem it gives a test whether people respond the same way both times.
Actually they significantly don’t.
Yes, sorry. I noticed, but editing polls is not unproblematic.
I believe editing polls resets them, so there’s no reason to do it if it’s just an aesthetically unpleasant mistake that doesn’t hurt the accuracy of the results.
Unfortunately I expect this poll to noise itself out of usefulness. for example. person A dislikes spicy and likes sweet. Person B dislikes sweet and likes spicy. this poll will show one vote 1 for sweet, one vote 5 for sweet, one vote 1 for spicy and one vote 5 for spicy.
There would have to be a form that can add another dimension to the results to see any correlation between results. This also limits people’s opportunity to comment on what might have caused them to have certain preferences...
The pool provides raw data. It’s possible to download that data and see what correlates with what. It just needs a slight bit of R coding.
Thats awesome! I didn’t realise!