{"id":35014,"date":"2016-10-20T12:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=35014"},"modified":"2016-10-20T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:06:54","slug":"more-content-poll-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=35014","title":{"rendered":"More Content: Poll Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the week I ran a poll<\/a> to see what kind of content people enjoyed \/ were looking forFrom me. I didn’t put Rutskarn into the poll, because I know better than to rate my work against his Battlespire series, which is basically a work of real-world heroism.<\/span> here on the blog. Although, the real, actual<\/em> purpose of the post was to mess around with polling data. In the process, I found yet another polling platform that didn’t work. Strawpoll<\/a> seemed pretty functional, at the cost of being unforgivably ugly and oversized. <\/p>\n

In the end I went with Google Forms. That worked really well. Google even automatically attaches the poll to a spreadsheet of results, which updates in realtime. Some people pointed out that it’s trivial to vote again and again. That’s easy to fix, although it would mean you’d need a Google account to participate. I wonder what percentage of people have Google accounts? I suppose if I wanted to find out I could run a poll and make sure you couldn’t vote more than once, but… oh. <\/p>\n

So anyway. The results…<\/p>\n

Like I said, this is only for curiosity and isn’t going to impact my output. All told there were 966 responses. Some of those were doubtless repeat votes, but I didn’t see any flagrant ballot-stuffingI didn’t see twenty identical votes in a row, or a long series of repeating fives or ones.<\/span>. The questions asked respondents to rate how much they desired each type of content, on a scale of 1 to 5. Questions were all optional, so you only needed to rate the stuff you cared about. <\/p>\n

Wait. Why can't I get the chart to label these things properly? Screw it. I'll just add labels in Paint Shop.<\/div>
Wait. Why can't I get the chart to label these things properly? Screw it. I'll just add labels in Paint Shop.<\/div><\/p>\n

One downside of this graph is that it’s just a brute-force tally of the whole column. Which means that if you left a question blank you effectively voted ZERO. Not having an opinion on a topic was more damaging than explicitly saying you didn’t like a topic, and that just doesn’t seem right. Looking at the number of blank responses, this is probably not significant.<\/p>\n

BUT…<\/p>\n

It bugs<\/em> me. So I reached way back into the dusty corners of my brain and began rummaging through old memories to see if any of my old spreadsheet knowledge was left. I found a bit in the 90’s section, buried under a bunch of old episodes of Star Trek Voyager and that one time I watched Ninja Turtles for some reason. That, with a bit of Google, let me make a version of the chart that shows the average rating of each kind of content, ignoring blanks. The result is…<\/p>\n

Oh, ok. I get how you do labels now.<\/div>
Oh, ok. I get how you do labels now.<\/div><\/p>\n

…basically the same damn thing. The scaling is a little different, but the overall rankings are unchanged.<\/p>\n

So now we have a full and complete understanding of something that ultimately doesn’t matter. I might do another one of these next week. Thanks for participating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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