Great features ! Thanks and congrats to those who made it happen.
One suggestion : you can’t see the result until you voted, I guess it’s not to bias/anchor the answer, but then it would be nice to add an option “I don’t plan to vote, let me see the results”, so someone who doesn’t want to vote for any reason can still access the outcome. Or else, there is a risk of people not wanting to vote but wanting to see the outcome will vote “at random” and skew the result.
Excluding the ponies (which I didn’t vote on, because I am one of sixteen people remaining on the Internet who doesn’t pony yet), this is the earliest radio poll where the sum of the numbers in the column matches the “Total” number at the bottom.
I love what this poll reveals about LW readers. Many sympathise with Batman, because of his tech/intellectual angle. The same with Iron Man, but he’s a bit less cool. Then two have heard of superman, and most LWers are male. And most of us don’t care.
The issue of the bug in question has been discussed already, in this very thread—but even if it hadn’t, I don’t think the discovery of a bug should stun you this much.
What would be really funny is if, when you select “I don’t care, but I’d like to see the results” you see that everyone else filled it out the same way.
I’m not conflating options, because I’m not really comparing Spiderman to not-Spiderman, I’m comparing Spiderman to the poll results in CCC’s comment. The effect is the same as editing the previous poll to add Spiderman.
This is a problem. Ideally there would be a separate button next to the “vote” button (a forum that I read has that feature, with the button labeled “View Results (Null Vote)”). Second-best would be to allow people to submit a blank vote (which is not as good, since it’s not obvious to people that they have that option), but it currently does not work that way (even though the OP seems to say that it does).
Great features ! Thanks and congrats to those who made it happen.
One suggestion : you can’t see the result until you voted, I guess it’s not to bias/anchor the answer, but then it would be nice to add an option “I don’t plan to vote, let me see the results”, so someone who doesn’t want to vote for any reason can still access the outcome. Or else, there is a risk of people not wanting to vote but wanting to see the outcome will vote “at random” and skew the result.
In the meantime, the effect can be simulated by proper selection of options. Example:
Which is your favourite superhero? [pollid:37]
Excluding the ponies (which I didn’t vote on, because I am one of sixteen people remaining on the Internet who doesn’t pony yet), this is the earliest radio poll where the sum of the numbers in the column matches the “Total” number at the bottom.
I am glad that you used the word “yet”: accepting the possibility of getting better is an essential part of overcoming a problem.
It’s a relief to know I’m not the only one...
I love what this poll reveals about LW readers. Many sympathise with Batman, because of his tech/intellectual angle. The same with Iron Man, but he’s a bit less cool. Then two have heard of superman, and most LWers are male. And most of us don’t care.
Results: 4+16+2+16+1+27(last option) = 144? WTF?
The issue of the bug in question has been discussed already, in this very thread—but even if it hadn’t, I don’t think the discovery of a bug should stun you this much.
Somebody sounds grouchy :/ In fact, it would be completely unsurprising if I had read the other comments. Oops.
What would be really funny is if, when you select “I don’t care, but I’d like to see the results” you see that everyone else filled it out the same way.
Who is your favorite superhero? [pollid:46]
[pollid:48]
EDIT: uh oh, you can’t fix typos in polls. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a barrier to lulz
I’m not conflating options, because I’m not really comparing Spiderman to not-Spiderman, I’m comparing Spiderman to the poll results in CCC’s comment. The effect is the same as editing the previous poll to add Spiderman.
Also apparently it’s “Spider-Man”.
You can clone polls. I wonder what the other polls are.
[pollid:48]
No wait, you can’t. Someone thought this thru.
Spiderman! Why isn’t Spiderman on there? I bet he’d be way more popular than that Flash guy whoever he is.
...Spiderman! I knew I was forgetting someone!
And the poll options cannot be edited after the fact (though the question can be).
Funny that Iron Man was the only Marvel hero on the list. If I had to pick one Marvel hero… he wouldn’t have been the one.
He did have a movie out recently. I think that’s why his name drifted into my head at the time of the poll.
On the other hand even complete anonymity could be sufficient for those who consider Spiderman a kind of pathetic whiny child.
This is a problem. Ideally there would be a separate button next to the “vote” button (a forum that I read has that feature, with the button labeled “View Results (Null Vote)”). Second-best would be to allow people to submit a blank vote (which is not as good, since it’s not obvious to people that they have that option), but it currently does not work that way (even though the OP seems to say that it does).