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Readers' Choice Awards (siteadm) Fri, 13 Jun

"Scientific" ballot stuffing.

Posted by: Andrew Grygus
Date posted: Sat, 14 Jun 1997

This poll is "scientific" only in assuring a result biased in an InfoWorld preferred direction.

* Favors opinions of desk pilots who sit at their phone all day.

* Eliminates opinions of real technology leaders who are out solving problems.

* Favors "addressees", not readers. Most free subscriptions aren't read much beyond the cover.

* Favors answers that are not well considered, but are the first thing that comes to mind - thus favoring products with heavy advertising budgets.

* Favors answers given when the responder is too distracted with the urgency of work to think.

* Can be carefully targeted so the right answers can be obtained with no evidence left behind.

I am sure many other examples can be added. Face it Sandy, this survey is just as slanted as the one you rejected. This whole process stinks - if you can't figure out how to get valid results, just drop it.


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