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Maybe we didn't really want a poll (sboland) Today
You make some excellent points... (Alan Laing) Today

How about this:

Posted by: acagle
Date posted: Wed, 18 Jun 1997

Isn't that what a poll is. I mean do you really think that the best candidate gets elected to public office versus the most popular candidate? Would anyone who was asked to vote or had the opportunity to vote, vote for something they disliked? That is why I am against this type of poll and would much rather see a review of products in a given category with detailed rated criteria arriving at a conclusion for 'best product' as opposed to a frivolous poll. With the review, I am given some factual data and reasons. With a poll, I am given nothing but an unqualified answer.

How about if they sorta split the difference and conduct something like a JD Powers approach? If you just take the labs' and editors choices you get (arguably) non-real world results. If you take a vote, self-selected or otherwise, you get your popularity contest.

Perhaps what they need is a detailed questionaire that lets readers (or subscribers) give their overall satisfaction ratings for the products they actually use. You'd still need a sampling strategy so you didn't get gobs of advocates swamping the results with glowing stories of how happy they are, but because you compare results between groups rather than within one big group, market (and mind) share wouldn't swamp out lesser-used but still good products. This way, to make an analogy, neither the vast numbers of Chevy owners nor the rabidity of Alpha_Romeo owners would skew the results.


What a great idea (rparker) Today

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