On polls

[andrewducker]

Some of you don't seem to have got the hang of polls. Here's a short tutorial:

[Poll #965426]

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Actually you can multiply select drop downs - so they're more like check boxes!

[andrewducker]

I certainly can't multiple select drop downs. And by the looks of the results, neither can you...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Gah. Trust LJ not to implement the useful HTML form features...

(and I remembered the multiple select after filling in the poll and couldn't be arsed to do it all again!)

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Those are combo-boxes, no?

[andabusers.livejournal.com]

Checkboxes *always* contain the full spectrum of human existence :>

[cx650.livejournal.com]

You missed out the 'tickybox just for the hell of it'!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

You forgot the snowflake option!

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Looks like there's a marginally significant bias toward assuming that '10' is good and '1' is poor in your 'rate my poll question' - as I type, you have 30 responses to that question, 10 scores 23.3%, 1 scores 13.3%, with a sd of 3 (although N/(sqrt N) = 5.5), so that's a little over 3 (2) sigma :-)

[andrewducker]

Aaaaand you've just reminded me that statistics is one of those things I really must get around to understanding properly at some point.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

It's a basic lifestyle, worthy of any list compiled by Heinlein :-)

I just assumed you'd be familiar with: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/math/gaufcn.html#c2

:-)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Life skill! I'm tired :-)

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. I'm familliar with that curve - from rolling large numbers of dice, if nothing else :->

I have a fairly good layman's grasp of stats. i.e. I can tell when newspapers are trying to slip one of the common tricks past me, but don't have the specialised maths skills to test things myself.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I like to imagine that drop-down boxes are never used in polls because LJers are well aware that they're a usability nightmare.

I also like to imagine that all the people of the world can live together in peace and harmony.

[chillies.livejournal.com]

This poll is almost as meta as books on typography. I *heart* it!

[andrewducker]

Thank you.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

text box as in input type equals text or textarea?

select multiple, for if you want to duplicate a whole lot of checkboxes, or normal select for where there are too many options for radio buttons?

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

No spinners?