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Readers' Choice Awards (siteadm) Fri, 13 Jun

Self Selected is OK - Redefine

Posted by: Andrew Grygus
Date posted: Mon, 16 Jun 1997

You are either going to get a self selected group, or you are going to have an irrelevant group high in desk drones and "addressees" and don't really cares.

Poll #1 was an extreme example of the first - Poll #2 is an woeful example of the second. There doesn't really seem to be a middle ground.

Given the choices, lets go with the most relevant (and most interesting) group, the self selected - only do it a lot better than for Poll #1.

First: rename it to "Products our readers care about" (catchier title, someone?). See, now you don't have to be "scientific". Avoid the weakness of Poll #1 by making sure there is plenty of opportunity for >>everyone<< to vote - but just once. Send out paper ballots to paper subscribers and accept only originals back. Use suggestions from above posts for IE readers.

Now, just accept that the ballots returned are only from people who give a damn. There's nothing wrong with that if the sample is big enough - it's people who give a damn that get things done, anyway.


How about (Alan Laing) Tue, 17 Jun

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