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Old 20-October-2003, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by RBG
The problem with these kinds of polls is that people with a stake or interest in the question are the ones more likely to answer such that it skews the results big time. It doesn't really give an indication of what the BA people are thinking.
Another case in point: The poll in this thread asks how often people view the board. But the people who view the board less often are less likely to be here to answer the poll and so the results end up skewed towards the more frequent side.
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