Posted by yxibow on December 25, 2005, at 1:57:47
In reply to Re: Can't believe no one wants to rate or read *bo » 4WD, posted by Phillipa on December 24, 2005, at 22:22:21
> Marsha I did! And the old bad pdoc was there. So I rated him as low as I could! A sad face for him! Just one of thousands I hope! But sadly my new pdoc was already there and he had a sad face. Now what but only one person had rated him. Fondly, Phillipa
I hate to lean on free speech, but unscientific poll sites tend to get the most responses from the crankiest people. Its how the questions are phrased that get even different responses. I can think of many political questions but I don't want to offend anyone on here so I won't press buttons, but if you look on places like CNN they tend to be heavily skewed one way or the other because the question asked by the pollster was phrased in a particular fashion.
This isn't to say that a fledgling site such as the one mentioned, given numerous more traffic, will be of possible value. Epinions, provided there are enough respondents -- thats another factor, can be of quite good value when steering clear of a shoddy online retailer.
One doesn't get a good picture with one or two responses -- its like pollnight with 0.001% of the polls responding, Jane Doe is the next district supervisor for Podunk, IA.
Just a thought
Tidings and cheers.
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