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Old 10-26-2011, 08:16 PM   #2083
Kipperriffic
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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina View Post
This has reached the point where I wonder if any news outlets will pick it up - it is a fantastic tale of social media gone wrong (or right from our point of view).

Yeah that is the problem (in our case, beauty) with open online polls, which don't require school ID for example, being very sensitive to bias. Technically, without any interference (thanks M Ha), the only people voting would be from the school, or the family members, or on rare occasions random people stumbling on the website.

It also tells us in general why it is a bad idea to use polls conducted on websites as evidence for any research, casual or academic, because they are not controlled and free of bias.


Okay that's enough serious talk!

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