Kindly comments on Less Wrong Polls in Comments - Less Wrong

79 Post author: jimrandomh 19 September 2012 04:19PM

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Comment author: kilobug 19 September 2012 06:59:24PM 23 points [-]

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.

Comment author: CCC 20 September 2012 06:32:00AM 10 points [-]

In the meantime, the effect can be simulated by proper selection of options. Example:

Which is your favourite superhero?

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Comment author: Kindly 20 September 2012 12:37:39PM 1 point [-]

Who is your favorite superhero?

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 September 2012 08:46:43PM *  2 points [-]

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

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Comment author: Kindly 20 September 2012 09:15:52PM 1 point [-]

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".

Comment author: [deleted] 20 September 2012 08:48:54PM *  0 points [-]

You can clone polls. I wonder what the other polls are.

Error: Poll belongs to a different comment

No wait, you can't. Someone thought this thru.