How valid is the data from TMC polls?

Lyon · Sep 18, 2015

:biggrin:

Sorry, mods can feel free to delete this without hurting my feelings but I really just couldn't help myself.

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I voted for scary....

vandacca · Sep 18, 2015

Lyon said:
:biggrin:

Sorry, mods can feel free to delete this without hurting my feelings but I really just couldn't help myself.

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I voted for scary....

You totally stole my idea! :biggrin:

bollar · Sep 18, 2015

I wish the polling feature was disabled. Nobody here knows how to write a good polling question and the results are useless.

//signed//
Crabby

Lyon · Sep 18, 2015

bollar said:
I wish the polling feature was disabled. Nobody here knows how to write a good polling question and the results are useless.

//signed//
Crabby

I should have made that an option.

NigelM · Sep 18, 2015

Lyon said:
:biggrin:

Sorry, mods can feel free to delete this without hurting my feelings but I really just couldn't help myself.

Now it justs needs to be moved to an appropriate section. ;-)

Lyon · Sep 18, 2015

NigelM said:
Now it justs needs to be moved to an appropriate section. ;-)

And what section would that be? Be kind.

NigelM · Sep 18, 2015

Lyon said:
And what section would that be? Be kind.

Site Feedback?

Lyon · Sep 18, 2015

NigelM said:
Site Feedback?

Oh, that sounds respectable.

Also, we probably don't have a Snark section.

MorrisonHiker · Sep 18, 2015

Maybe you should've made this poll anonymous so that people could respond without others knowing what option they chose.

NigelM · Sep 18, 2015

Lyon said:
Oh, that sounds respectable.

Also, we probably don't have a Snark section.

Yeah, we do but you can only get moved there.. ;-)

scaesare · Sep 18, 2015

I voted "Other"

Using a self selecting statistically invalid poll to determine of polls are valid (due to their self selecting nature), violates some sort of recursive principle of Ptyhonesque Physics, and will undoubtedly crash the server.

Lyon · Sep 18, 2015

scaesare said:
I voted "Other"

Using a self selecting statistically invalid poll to determine of polls are valid (due to their self selecting nature), violates some sort of recursive principle of Ptyhonesque Physics, and will undoubtedly crash the server.

It's also making me giggle like a little kid! :biggrin:

efusco · Sep 18, 2015

Lyon said:
:biggrin:

Sorry, mods can feel free to delete this without hurting my feelings but I really just couldn't help myself.

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I voted for scary....

Funny! I won't delete, but did move to site feedback

CHG-ON · Sep 18, 2015

The problem is that the samples, as with this poll, are simply too small to deduct anything terribly useful. If we could get pretty much every owner to take the polls, it would be better. Easier said than done, for sure. But I still enjoy taking participating and seeing the results.

jerry33 · Sep 19, 2015

And I'm not sure that dispositive is the correct word:

adjectiverelating to or bringing about the settlement of an issue or the disposition of property: such litigation will rarely be dispositive of any question.• Law dealing with the disposition of property by deed or will: the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions.• dealing with the settling of international conflicts by an agreed disposition of disputed territories: a peace settlement in the nature of a dispositive treaty.

FlasherZ · Sep 19, 2015

CHG-ON said:
The problem is that the samples, as with this poll, are simply too small to deduct anything terribly useful. If we could get pretty much every owner to take the polls, it would be better. Easier said than done, for sure. But I still enjoy taking participating and seeing the results.

That would be a good first step. The second is dealing with bias in answers: making them more neutral and being careful to eliminate overlap. If you can solve the self-selection problem, then you correct for the apathy bias somewhat.

How valid is the data from TMC polls?

How useful is the polling data gathered from TMC polls?

What's a TMC poll?

Absolute FACT!

Totally flawed and useless.

Instructive but not dispositive.

I was a History/Language/Philosophy major and statistics are scary.

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