Starfury said: No need to connect this with the 8 answers thread in any way, but the vaulting poll shows the problem with the rule about polls..What are you supposed to do if you want to give participants a slightly more granular choice than good/bad?The poll in question offered the options (boiled down):bad, scrap itneeds major changesneeds minor changesok, could still use some workfine, doesn't need changeSo 3 bad, 2 good. Would the poll be ok with a sixth option?awesome, definitely doesn't need change
DeNappa said: I know that @Ducky cited the 'poll choices must be unbiased'-rule when closing that thread, but when I look at it, in my opinion it's more that the question was formulated tendentious(ly?), and not so much the options. "Do you still hate..." assumes that you hated it in the first place.
Jaedenkaal said: Or you could read that as 4 negative options and one neutral option.
Starfury said:You'd have to be pretty biased to attribute negativity if you see even the last one as just neutral.
bad, scrap it -- I really, REALLY don't likeneeds major changes - I really don't likeneeds minor changes - I don't likeok, could still use some work - I don't really likefine, doesn't need change - I don't care
Starfury said:Some polls just don't make sense with an equal amount of options for both sides. I'm not running around screaming bias when the census form comes with 8 options for being religious and just one for not being religious.@Ducky Can you give us an example of how to formulate such a poll without violating forum rules? Just giving school grades can't be the answer as that would obviously be biased to positive answers.