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pool structure biases to 'commented' level?
While this is quite off-topic, it really strikes me that those poll's levels that are associated to textual comments (whether they are positive or negative) attract *much* more votes than the other ones. I wonder whether one could deduce some "uncertainty bars" on the poll levels...
pool structure biases to 'commented' level?
It is certainly the case that the labeled responses attract more attention -- but also no surprise: this type of "framing" often affects surveys and other social experiments. However, these comments are, IMO, necessary in a survey like this: what does "6" mean exactly? Without some "guidance" or framing, one person's 3 or 4 may be another person's 7 or 8... and thus the aggregate results would be completely uninterpretable.
Error bars don't seem to be appropriate here: in no way can this survey be considered a random sample, so there is no statistically valid way to construct such error bands. Best one can do is look at the histogram and draw one's own conclusions. The median and modal responses both are 7 (53.2% of the mass, as of right now, was at 7 or higher), so most of the participants don't seem overly concerned. Notice that this is not how most the comments read, so it says something about people's willingness to click a button versus type in a text box. (Yes, one should always expect more extreme responses in a text box! ;) ) |
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