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Gravy Davey
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Kenosha, Wisconsin
Jun 2001
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loinburger
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Sweet Sauce Jones
Jul 1999
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I can see some uses being able to select multiple choices in a poll. For example, let's say I started a poll in the Civ III section, "Which three English leaders do you want Firaxis to make animations for?" The choices are Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Henry V, Victoria, Elizabeth II, Charles I, Richard III, Richard II, Thatcher, and Churchill. This poll would be impossible if people couldn't make more than one selection; if they could make multiple selections then the poll would have ten choices, but if they couldn't then the poll would have eighty-one choices (for example, "Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Henry V" and "Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Victoria" would be separate choices).
Of course, people could also make an OT poll "What is your favorite food, choose only 4" and all 10 choices would be "Banana", but so what? This really isn't very different from the poll "What is your favorite food, choose only 1" with all 10 choices as "Banana", so allowing for multiple-choice polls wouldn't cause any more "harm" single-choice polls.
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loinburger
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Sweet Sauce Jones
Jul 1999
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Originally posted by Mercator
Technophile, instead of having people choose 3 leaders, you let everyone pick 1, and the 3 with the most votes "win". |
It wouldn't be the same. Some leaders might be everybody's 2nd choice but not make it as a 1st choice (Churchill and Thatcher come to mind; people might want to be able to make a leader transition from, say, Elizabeth I to Churchill, but would not want to be led by Chuchill during the stone age).
Come to that, it might also be interesting if it were possible to weight responses (1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice), although I imagine that this would be a much more complicated matter than allowing multiple selections.
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Furthermore, that multiple-choice poll should restrict people to only be able to make 3 choices. Do you want to let people pick only 1 or 2? After all, some might think there only are 2 leaders worth getting a spot. And I suppose you wouldn´t want anyone to pick 4 or more, right? |
I wouldn't consider it much of a sacrifice if there were no minimum response (if people could make only 1 or 2 selections even though the poll allows them to make 3 choices).
I encountered another use for a multiple-selection poll. On the OT forum I had a poll "What is your current marital status?", but found that there was no satisfactory way to include the "Divorced" and "Widow(er)" choices. Somebody who is divorced and remarried has a much different marital status than somebody who is divorced and single, but I would have exceeded the 10 choice limit had I included "Divorced and remarried," "Divorced and engaged," etc on the poll. However, if the poll were a multiple-selection poll (where people could choose either 1 or 2 responses) then I could have included "Divorced" and "Widow(er)" as choices; those who were, for example, divorced and remarried could then select both "Divorced" and "Married" from the list.
A multiple-selection poll could be used in this way to add qualifiers to a poll. (In the "marital status" poll example I realize that in a multiple-selection poll it would be possible for somebody to choose both Married and Single, which really doesn't make any sense. While it would be nice if vBB code could allow the poll creator to decide which answers are nonsensical, I by no means consider this a necessity or even a priority; people are going to make nonsensical responses to a poll regardless of whether the poll is single-selection or multiple-selection, since all they have to do is lie.)
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Mercator
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Sorekara no Nanimo
Jan 1970
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quote:
Originally posted by technophile
It wouldn't be the same. Some leaders might be everybody's 2nd choice but not make it as a 1st choice (Churchill and Thatcher come to mind; people might want to be able to make a leader transition from, say, Elizabeth I to Churchill, but would not want to be led by Chuchill during the stone age). |
I seriously doubt that. There are enough people on these forums to have diferent opinions. So there is bound to be more than one popular choice.
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Come to that, it might also be interesting if it were possible to weight responses (1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice), although I imagine that this would be a much more complicated matter than allowing multiple selections. |
This wouldn´t have the desired effect at all, and only makes single choice polls a better option. Without the weighting, people would need to pick their 3 best which best represents the fact that there will eventually be 3 "finalists". With the weighting, one of the three will have the highest weight, meaning you´re reverting back to something close to a one choice poll.
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I wouldn't consider it much of a sacrifice if there were no minimum response (if people could make only 1 or 2 selections even though the poll allows them to make 3 choices). |
But you do feel the need for a maximum of 3, right? And in some cases you can imagine there might be a need for a minimum, right? That brings me back to the argument of clarity, and to some degree implementation and representation difficulty.
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I encountered another use for a multiple-selection poll. On the OT forum I had a poll "What is your current marital status?", but found that there was no satisfactory way to include the "Divorced" and "Widow(er)" choices. |
AFAIK, "Divorced" and "Widow(er)" aren´t a marital status. If someone has divorced in the past, his/her marital status is simply what it is now, so one of the options single/married/dating/engaged etc. The same for Widow(er). If the person in question wants to clarify his/her past marital status (s)he´s free to explain that in the thread if need be.
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A multiple-selection poll could be used in this way to add qualifiers to a poll. (In the "marital status" poll example I realize that in a multiple-selection poll it would be possible for somebody to choose both Married and Single, which really doesn't make any sense. While it would be nice if vBB code could allow the poll creator to decide which answers are nonsensical, I by no means consider this a necessity or even a priority; people are going to make nonsensical responses to a poll regardless of whether the poll is single-selection or multiple-selection, since all they have to do is lie.) |
Indeed, allowing people to disallow certain combinations would not only be difficult to implement, but creating a poll would become a rather tedious job and not worth the effort.
There will always be cheating, I know, but making such polls would make it extremely attractive. And sometimes an added "banana" option in single choice polls can lure those "liars" away.
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05-08-2001 19:57
I guess there's a lot of things I have to learn yet...does anyone know a site where to read all those "words" and what they mean?
Adding extra options is therefore rather superfluous.
poles.
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