I found the question for the poll (“Who looks better to you?”) to be rather ambiguous. For instance, I’m not sure if the following interpretations are correct:
I was aiming for a question that would produce a simple status assessment.
I hoped halo effect would counteract some of the potential problems with the wording.
After thinking about it I decided a rather ambiguous but easy to understand question might best capture this without discouraging too many people from contributing, so yes it was intentional.
But please I have little experience on poll questions and am not a native speaker of English to boot, so please share any further constructive criticism you might have! :)
I found the question for the poll (“Who looks better to you?”) to be rather ambiguous. For instance, I’m not sure if the following interpretations are correct:
“Who would you rather interact with?”
“Who would you rather be?”
Did you intend this?
I agree. Another potential distinction: “Who would you rather be?” versus “Who do you imagine you would be happier if you were?”
I was aiming for a question that would produce a simple status assessment. I hoped halo effect would counteract some of the potential problems with the wording. After thinking about it I decided a rather ambiguous but easy to understand question might best capture this without discouraging too many people from contributing, so yes it was intentional.
But please I have little experience on poll questions and am not a native speaker of English to boot, so please share any further constructive criticism you might have! :)
I couldn’t answer for this reason. It’s asking “whom do you rate higher [according to criterion X]?” without specifying criterion X.
Criterion X is warm fuzzies.
One can’t get that from “who looks better to you?”, except through a lucky guess. It could just as easily have been many other things.