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Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:58 am
by Deleted User
Completely unrelated to other topics on here.
A village has 601 inhabitants and they want to decide on having a council to run the village.
Here's how they vote.
5 councillors - 100 votes
4 councillors - 100 votes
3 councillors - 100 votes
2 councillors - 100 votes
1 councillor - 100 votes
0 councillors - 101 votes
Let a shortarse, wimpy, Welsh, pygmy dictator decide everything - 0 votes.
Do these 601 people want a council. Yup, over 80% do.
A bad poll doesn't mean you can go against the majority.
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:59 am
by DavidB
Oh dear, seething
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:03 pm
by Deleted User
And that's how you control the posting of a moron.
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:04 pm
by Ginge
DavidOwen67 wrote:And that's how you control the posting of a moron.
Well played.
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:06 pm
by Deleted User
Ginge wrote:DavidOwen67 wrote:And that's how you control the posting of a moron.
Well played.
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:44 pm
by DavidB
Yup, still seething and glorious for us all to enjoy
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 1:00 pm
by Skewball
Niki, are you seriously interpreting the poll results like you did?
You are a fucking idiot if you have
Bye
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:11 pm
by ChrisW
Taking the result very well David
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:22 pm
by only85
yes prime minister ,series 1 episode 2 if you want to learn about opinion polls & results classic viewing
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:17 pm
by nikkiboy
Personally I'd have just had a yes or no poll but it wasn't set up as that, the option that received the most votes was 'no' which makes it the winner.
You can't suddenly decide to add together the other three options because you don't like the result.
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:19 pm
by DavidB
nikkiboy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:17 pm
Personally I'd have just had a yes or no poll but it wasn't set up as that, the option that received the most votes was 'no' which makes it the winner.
You can't suddenly decide to add together the other three options because you don't like the result.
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:31 pm
by ChrisW
nikkiboy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:17 pm
Personally I'd have just had a yes or no poll but it wasn't set up as that, the option that received the most votes was 'no' which makes it the winner.
You can't suddenly decide to add together the other three options because you don't like the result.
Someone thought they were being clever there. Turned out it backfired.
Ginge McLoyalty stated following the result 'Polls need fixing'
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:33 pm
by DavidB
Ha Ginge McLoyalty, well played Chris!
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:36 pm
by ssjsa
only85 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:22 pm
yes prime minister ,series 1 episode 2 if you want to learn about opinion polls & results classic viewing
For me one of the best television series ever. And somewhat prophetic. The tobacco ban being a prime example.
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:17 am
by Paddy McGinty
DavidOwen67 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 11:58 am
Completely unrelated to other topics on here.
A village has 601 inhabitants and they want to decide on having a council to run the village.
Here's how they vote.
5 councillors - 100 votes
4 councillors - 100 votes
3 councillors - 100 votes
2 councillors - 100 votes
1 councillor - 100 votes
0 councillors - 101 votes
Let a shortarse, wimpy, Welsh, pygmy dictator decide everything - 0 votes.
Do these 601 people want a council. Yup, over 80% do.
A bad poll doesn't mean you can go against the majority.
Idiot, take the one at the top for instance, they want a council to have 5 councillors and only 5 will do, they don't want 4,3,2,1. If they can't have 5 councillors then they could of thought well if I can't have five I'd prefer to have no councillors....... no deal is better than a bad deal.
Re: Opinion Polls and How to Interpret Them
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:32 pm
by Moongoose McQueeen
Merger poll is the best poll currently running