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Originally Posted by mrkai
...some built in ambiguity and skew on the positive side of the question.
I see this a lot in these polls...the questions are weirdly worded and have a lot of wiggle room 
I guess it depends on the point you are trying to make. There is only one definite negative answer and the two answers with the largest amount of responses clearly could overlap a bit.
Most importantly tho, is we have a sample pool of lest than 100 people here |
The questions deliberately overlap. That's why it's a multiple response poll-- people can (and usually do) pick more than one response. There's one item I'd have reworded (I'd have made the "I re-read many books" more strongly worded), but otherwise I think it's quite a reasonable poll for its purpose, which isn't to "prove" anything, but merely to get a sense of how many people who care to express an opinion in this forum re-read books, and for what purpose. You're on firmer ground with the sample criticism, but that limitation is clearly stated at the start of the thread, as well.
I don't want to hijack this thread with an extended debate about poll design, but I don't think it's reasonable to disregard the results with off-hand remarks about the wording. You are, of course, free to construct your own poll (or better yet, a proper survey with a defined population and sampling strategy).
Meanwhile, I stand by my original statement. I think it is quite credible to conclude that many MobileRead participants re-read books. I don't find this particularly surprising. This is a forum about reading, after all.