RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question

Subject: RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question
From: "krupp, marguerite" <krupp_marguerite -at- emc -dot- com>
To: "'Jeff Hanvey'" <jewahe -at- yahoo -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:32:38 -0400

Now, now, folks! Ballot box stuffing is an old American custom! As various
politicians are reputed to have said, "Vote early and often!"

Marguerite

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hanvey [mailto:jewahe -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 1:47 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question


Barry Kieffer said:

> There is one problem with polls - who answers them.

There's more than one problem....

The basic problem with any poll is that usually only
those with a vested interest respond to them (and then
only when they're dissatified).

Online polls have an even larger problem since you
can't control who votes or how many times. Someone
with a little time to spare or a beef against an item
in the poll could "run up" the numbers for their
favorite brand/product/company/opinion/whatever. As a
result, online polls are, at best, useful only to give
a general tendency of a trend - not to plot the future
course of your life against. Certainly, you should not
quote an online poll as gospel without closely
studying its methodology (would a tech writer do
otherwise?).

JMHO.



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Jeff Hanvey
Memphis, TN

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