Russ Fairfield Research Poll

[Ed McDonnell]

This poll is intended to test the hypothesis that voters tend to choose the first choices in a poll over the last choices. Since pens will be listed in the voting poll in the order of submission, there may be a benefit to getting your entry in early.

This is also a way for me to test and see if I can actually set up a poll. Here goes (wish me luck).

Ed

 

[Carl Fisher]

I voted, but since I'm on my way out the door to the dentist, I'd rather be doing ANYTHING else so my vote may be a bit skewed right now.

 

[toddlajoie]

I voted. I nearly selected the 2nd , just out of spite, the I also considered selecting the 3rd or 4th, as I was debating the fact that winning that much money would include giving 1/2 of it away to taxes, and I did not want to be an enabler of the poor fiscal management of our government bodies...

After that I decided that if I had $300M, I wouldn't care how the govt mishandles their half...

 

[mredburn]

Move to a state that doesnt have income tax and you could keep a little more of it!

 

[Gofer]

I took some money but feel like option 4 has already happened today.

Bruce

 

[ed4copies]

You have successfully set up a poll AND enabled some excellent entertainment!! Great way to start the day!!

THANKS!!!
EdB

 

[mbroberg]

I am here just taking a break from clearing most of the 7" of snow that fell last night. Will be heading back out in a minute to finish. To think that just 4 short days ago I was enjoying the 80+ degree weather in Ft. Myers! Now, I think I'd rather be hit by a truck! :curse::biggrin:

 

[Ed McDonnell]

We've got 19 votes in so far. If each of you submit a pen we'll have a nice competition. But I think we can do better. I'll have to work on that.....


Ed

 

[ChrisN]

No fair! Your research is skewed! You should've put the best one at the bottom so your theory would be disproved. :biggrin:

 

[alphageek]

No fair! Your research is skewed! You should've put the best one at the bottom so your theory would be disproved. :biggrin:

Thats funny... Personally I thought the research was skewed by posting the goal of the research in the test. It would have been REALLY funny had the order been reversed...

 

[Ed McDonnell]

No fair! Your research is skewed! You should've put the best one at the bottom so your theory would be disproved. :biggrin:

Since many people are going to be using skews to make their pens, skewed research seems completely appropriate.:wink:

Ed

 

[Ed McDonnell]

No fair! Your research is skewed! You should've put the best one at the bottom so your theory would be disproved. :biggrin:

Thats funny... Personally I thought the research was skewed by posting the goal of the research in the test. It would have been REALLY funny had the order been reversed...

I consulted with a number of the top partisan political pollsters during the development of my poll. This is the way they told me they do it. The only thing I didn't do was limit the sample population to a subset that I knew would answer the way I wanted. But I think I covered my bases with the way I structured the choices. :biggrin:

Ed

 

[Rick_G]

I voted. I nearly selected the 2nd , just out of spite, the I also considered selecting the 3rd or 4th, as I was debating the fact that winning that much money would include giving 1/2 of it away to taxes, and I did not want to be an enabler of the poor fiscal management of our government bodies...

After that I decided that if I had $300M, I wouldn't care how the govt mishandles their half...

Move to Canada you get to keep it all.

 

[toddlajoie]

Move to Canada you get to keep it all.

3 letters... VAT...

 

[mmyshrall]

Thanks, Ed for allowing me to have an outlet for my oppositional defiant disorder today. As such, I oppose and defy your postion that people will gravitate to the first choice as evidenced by my selection of #3.

Now that I have had my fun, it's time to get back to work... :frown:

 

[Displaced Canadian]

With the way I feel right now, the truck please the truck.

 

[Ed McDonnell]

Thanks, Ed for allowing me to have an outlet for my oppositional defiant disorder today. As such, I oppose and defy your postion that people will gravitate to the first choice as evidenced by my selection of #3.

Now that I have had my fun, it's time to get back to work... :frown:

#3??? Really????? I haven't always lived in sunny warm South Florida. I was exiled to the artic north for a number of years. I've shoveled Snow. I know what that's like. Nobody chooses to shovel snow. They only do it because is forcing them to do it.

But I guess that's the case here. My choice of choices forced you to pick #3 or #4. An who in their right mind would pick #4?

Ed

 

[mmyshrall]

Thanks, Ed for allowing me to have an outlet for my oppositional defiant disorder today. As such, I oppose and defy your postion that people will gravitate to the first choice as evidenced by my selection of #3.

Now that I have had my fun, it's time to get back to work... :frown:

#3??? Really????? I haven't always lived in sunny warm South Florida. I was exiled to the artic north for a number of years. I've shoveled Snow. I know what that's like. Nobody chooses to shovel snow. They only do it because is forcing them to do it.

But I guess that's the case here. My choice of choices forced you to pick #3 or #4. An who in their right mind would pick #4?



Ed

Actually, I was torn between #3 and #4, so I let the magic 8 ball do its work... :biggrin:

Michael

 

[Ed McDonnell]

With the way I feel right now, the truck please the truck.

As I was saying, "who would pick #4". Oh....I see. You picked #4. Hmmmmmm. Maybe turning a pen for the contest would make you feel a lot better. There's always alternatives to the truck. Maybe try shoveling some snow? :biggrin:


Ed

 

[Ed McDonnell]

Thanks, Ed for allowing me to have an outlet for my oppositional defiant disorder today. As such, I oppose and defy your postion that people will gravitate to the first choice as evidenced by my selection of #3.

Now that I have had my fun, it's time to get back to work... :frown:

#3??? Really????? I haven't always lived in sunny warm South Florida. I was exiled to the artic north for a number of years. I've shoveled Snow. I know what that's like. Nobody chooses to shovel snow. They only do it because is forcing them to do it.

But I guess that's the case here. My choice of choices forced you to pick #3 or #4. An who in their right mind would pick #4?



Ed

Actually, I was torn between #3 and #4, so I let the magic 8 ball do its work... :biggrin:

Michael

I haven't seen one of those magic 8 balls in a long time. I bet they have an app for that and kids today don't realize it really was a ball in ancient times.......

Ed

 

[Brian G]

Well, I was out shoveling snow, stopped to pick up what looked like a winning lottery ticket, and got run over by a truck.

Gonna sue him for $600 million.

 

[Ed McDonnell]

Well, I was out shoveling snow, stopped to pick up what looked like a winning lottery ticket, and got run over by a truck.

Gonna sue him for $600 million.

Sort of reminds me of this song:

The Perfect Country & Western Song - The Perfect Version - YouTube

(skip to 42 seconds if you are impatient.....)

Ed

 

[edstreet]

Poll is inconclusive as there is nothing to relate to the choices as for which is the greater evil. I could come up with a good hefty number of things will people will volunteer willingly to get hit with a truck than to do certain things. So really not sure what you are asking about in the poll.

 

[Brian G]

Ed, (no, not you, Ed, the other Ed), that song isn't perfect because there's no dog guarding the gun rack.

Ed, (yes, you, Ed, not the other Ed), I think it might have made more sense if the other Ed had put "Swabbing your eyes with burlap" as a fifth choice.

On the other hand, perhaps we've all had a a bit too much of a fifth. :beer: