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Question: Do you hate "Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor" polls?
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« on: April 05, 2010, 12:03:02 PM »
God yes! Why do those stupid things keep getting made?

Why not just make it something like "Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor/Awful"? Boom one more option, true symmetry and a good way to distinguish approve/disapprove instead of the nonsense of putting fair in with disapprove.
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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2010, 12:08:12 PM »
Not nearly as much as your retarded 'Freedom Fighter / Horrible Person' polls.
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« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2010, 12:12:15 PM »
Quote from: Joe Republic on April 05, 2010, 12:08:12 PM
Not nearly as much as your retarded 'Freedom Fighter / Horrible Person' polls.

Damn, I like those the best.  Sad
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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2010, 12:19:57 PM »
Quote from: Joe Republic on April 05, 2010, 12:08:12 PM
Not nearly as much as your retarded 'Freedom Fighter / Horrible Person' polls.

I'm hardly the only one who makes them.
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« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2010, 12:31:03 PM »
Quote from: what is that smile on your face supposed to mean? on April 05, 2010, 12:19:57 PM
Quote from: Joe Republic on April 05, 2010, 12:08:12 PM
Not nearly as much as your retarded 'Freedom Fighter / Horrible Person' polls.

I'm hardly the only one who makes them.

So?
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« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2010, 02:24:33 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2010, 02:37:43 PM »
The governing politician who can be accurately described as merely "poor" rather than execrable is a rare (though not unheard of) beast, so these polls always leave me a little stumped.
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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2010, 04:11:18 PM »
     I don't see those polls so much anymore, though I always have wondered how anyone could think that the average person would use "fair" to mean "disapprove".
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« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2010, 05:18:05 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2010, 05:25:50 PM »
Yes.
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« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2010, 06:11:15 PM »
They are lopsided.  You have two positives, a mediocre, and a negative....

Why not just say "on a scale of 1-5" or "1-10" or

Excellent
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« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2010, 06:32:43 PM »
The trouble with an odd number of choices is that you get little sense of opinion from those fence straddlers who vote the middle option. No opinion should be an option for these folks, but if you have an opinion even numbers work better.
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« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2010, 07:02:28 PM »
Yes. As PiT said, "fair" should not be used to mean "disapprove".
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« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2010, 07:22:46 PM »
Multi-Choice questions are, by their very nature, nauseatingly stupid.
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« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2010, 07:24:32 PM »
Quote from: The Goy's Teeth on April 05, 2010, 07:22:46 PM
Multi-Choice questions are, by their very nature, nauseatingly stupid.
By the way.. I finally got your username... great movie.
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