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

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Comment author: Unnamed 20 October 2012 10:13:43PM 1 point [-]

After one month and 118 responses, I'm considering this poll closed. The results are:

1) 17%
2) 21%
3) 20%
4) 24%
5) 18%

A chi-squared test says that these results do not differ significantly from uniform random responding, with a p-value of 0.78.

The main reason why I ran this poll was because I thought it might have implications for the trickier poll above. It is interesting the option #4 was the most common response in this poll, that poll, and the gamefaqs poll which that poll was based on. #4 may seem especially random, and some respondents in the other polls may have just been trying to answer at random. But this poll ended up not providing much information about that; to test it we'd need a larger sample size, and preferably a poll where respondents did not use external sources of randomness.