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Readers' Choice Awards (siteadm) Fri, 13 Jun

2nd Poll Data *EXPOSED!!!*

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

...Thanks to the help of the infamously reknown hacker extreme, s6i6x, I've managed to acquire some important facts about who was polled by telephone and participated in IW's semi-annual Readers' Insult event. The data, needless to say, was rather interesting.

...First off, the three hundred people polled had an employment breakdown as follows:

Profession# Polled
Phone Sex Operators (PSO)169
Midwestern Farmers (MF)81
Small Engine Mechanics (SEM)25
Domesticated Avian Breeders (DAB)12
Janitorial Workers (JW)8
Union Steel Workers (SW)5

...Next, they were asked what their favorite operating system was:

Operating System# of Votes
Quake102
Diablo91
C&C Red Alert57
Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time30
IBM OS/2 Warp21
Solitaire under Windows NT 4.0 Workstation9

...Now, to break down the votes by who voted for what:

Operating System Total # of Votes # of Votes
PSO
# of Votes
MF
# of Votes
SEM
# of Votes
DAB
# of Votes
JW
# of Votes
SW
Quake 102 21 17 33 2 14 15
Diablo 91 22 17 11 2 10 29
C&C Red Alert 57 17 11 15 5 7 2
Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time 30 2 2 1 0 22 3
IBM OS/2 Warp 21 1 0 0 18 1 1
Solitaire on Windows NT 4.0 Workstation 9 1 1 1 3 1 2
...So, from the data, the following conclusions can be derived:

...Well, there you have it. Now, all we need is to see the data from the first poll, and then we can do some comparisons.

OM


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