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3rd February 2009, 09:24 PM
The idea of posting a Poll is to attempt to produce a consensus of opinion, but the numbers who actually do vote very rarely makes more than 10% of the members-and are often much less.
So my question is this- how effective,representative or informative are polls if so few people vote?
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3rd February 2009, 10:42 PM
You haven't got an option for 'ulitimately pointless, but might prove fun and potenially interesting', although I suppose that could be the first one.
In fact, I might adopt that as my motto for life... seems apt given some of the threads in this part of the foum.
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3rd February 2009, 10:44 PM
sad but true..
10% is quite good!
I would be happy with 5%
There are many that look.. (I was amazed last night at a Meeting, to find all these high up folks use the forum, but never speak.. do not even log in ) they all keep an eye on BAJR.. and recently have been using info about the Druid reburial stuff..
so the influence is there... just the typing is not..
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3rd February 2009, 10:46 PM
there I voted!
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4th February 2009, 03:32 PM
My apologies if anyone tried to vote just after I posted this last night, it locked itself the moment I pressed 'post' due to an increase of ionization in the upper atmosphere due to sun spot activity![:I]
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4th February 2009, 07:50 PM
1% so far
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5th February 2009, 11:31 AM
10% would be great, but unfortunately it wouldn't be either a random or representative sample. They would represent the 10% of BAJR members most likely to vote in polls.
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5th February 2009, 03:23 PM
How about sticking featured polls on the view jobs page? Didn't it used to be like that, or am a hallucinating?
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6th February 2009, 12:09 PM
Se what I can do! :face-huh:
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6th February 2009, 02:37 PM
There, I've voted too. I note, however, that you don't have an option for "voting is useless because all the decisions will be made by faceless consultants".
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