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Poll: My age is...
- robg 19y agoSorry for the fairly big ranges. I got an error when I had more choices.
- clay 19y agoI clicked this kinda hoping that you would have a choice for every age...
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- altay 19y agoDespite the number of people who cared enough to vote in the poll, this actual news item only has 3 points. Should it automatically vote the item up when you vote in a poll? (On the other hand, polls would pretty much take over the front page.)
- robg 19y agoThat's the Catch-22, I think. Maybe a threshold when a certain number of people vote? Or define hotness as some factor of votes divided by time perhaps?
- Erf 19y agoI have no interest in seeing this or other polls on the Hacker News front page, but if others want it I'm happy to contribute to it (all it takes is a click, after all). And yes; one of the worst things that happened to Reddit was the proliferation of Vote-Up-If posts.
- robg 19y agoBut that implementation, I think, is much poorer (as you say Vote up if) because it's really very limited. Here's I think it's interesting that we can basically run a survey experiment based on the choices offered. For instance, we can see that the age of YC.news users is a slightly skewed distribution with a mean of of maybe 24-25 (even as we could nail it down more with smaller bins). To me, that's much more interesting than "vote up".
- ghiotion 19y agoIt's interesting there was so much antipathy towards the Vote-Up-If posts. I found them annoying, but I could live with them. Personally, what ruined reddit for me was Ron Paul, politics, and all the 911wasAnInsideJob folks. I could even live with the over-abundance of LOL cats and flicker links. But the overall nuttiness of the site simply turned me off. Don't get me wrong, I like politics and I personally think Ron Paul has a lot going for him. But I didn't start reading the site for its political bent; I started reading it for the interesting links and the tech stuff. I'd simply like to get my political news elsewhere. With the bastardized reddit, I couldn't get away from politics, even with the introduction of sub-reddits.
- yters 19y agoRedditors trying to force ideas down my throat was a turn off for me too.
- thorax 19y agoI move into a different vote group tomorrow. Better vote while I can.
- robg 19y agoHappy birthday! I'm in two weeks and the same happens to me. I would have preferred ranges of four years, but I got an error with that many choices.
- nextmoveone 19y agoI can vote for more than 1 choice? I would vote for Obama and Hilary if I could.
- mdemare 19y agoIn the primaries? That doesn't seem useful... But with multiple selections in the general election we wouldn't need primaries and would get more centrist presidents.
- dfranke 19y agoNot necessarily more centrist, but probably more idiosyncratic. The benefit of approval voting is that you aren't disincentivized from voting for candidates whom you like but think can't win.
- mdemare 19y agoIt's interesting to consider which US elections would have had a different outcome with approval voting. Certainly the 2000 election. People could have voted both for Nader and Gore, which would have tipped Gore over the edge. How about 1992? Could Bush have won if angry republicans would have a chance to vent their anger by also voting for Perot? Or might Perot have won since voting for a 3rd party candidate wouldn't feel like a lost vote. To demonstrate the problem with approval voting (all voting systems have problems, as was proven by Kenneth Arrow in 1951): if Obama, Clinton and McCain would all run, McCain would probably win, even if a majority of voters preferred either Democrat. So, approval voting should allow fair elections with more than two candidates, but in practice it doesn't, because people vote strategically.
- eru 19y agoDon't you confuse approval voting with first-past-the-post?
- doubleplus 19y agoI grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
- mdemare 19y agoBut have you measured out your life with coffee spoons?
- ghiotion 19y agoOh man, if I could give out 10 points for a T.S. Eliot reference, I would. Much love to you. The Four Quartets rivals Hamlet in its intricacy and attention to the human condition. And, it's about 1/10 the size! What a bargain!
- yters 19y agoIf you like the Wasteland, you'll like this site: http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/explore.html http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/explor...
- tlrobinson 19y agohttp://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p3ZpyEuzg1jyMSQxC-NBMGQ http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p3ZpyEuzg1jyMSQxC-NBM...
- robg 19y agoExcellent! Unless there's something atypical about the sample of YC.news users late on a Saturday night (e.g., maybe we're a tad older?), I don't think the distribution will change much.
- Xichekolas 19y agoI'm 24 and I'm here on a Saturday night... I may be at my Ballmer Peak, but I'm here!
- robg 19y agoThere goes that hypothesis! Things seem to have shifted slightly older late last night and this morning. Hopefully this stays on the frontpage through Monday so we can see some effect of workday visitors.
- graywh 19y agoThe statistician in me cringes at the information lost in categorizing a continuous variable.
- maxwell 19y agoSingle vote polls would be useful here.
- ivankirigin 19y agoPG: how many people voted for more than one?
- pg 19y agoThe current 50 votes were cast by 38 voters, so there were 12 dishonest votes: > (let voters (flat (map [_ 2] (map [(item _) 'votes] ((item 126923) 'parts)))) (list (len voters) (len (dedup voters)))) (50 38) In particular, many if not all of the votes by people claiming to be 12 and under were fake.
- robg 19y agoThat makes me sad. Any easy way to make poll choices exclusive? Or toss the multi-voters?
- michaelneale 19y agoI am so old.
- systems 19y agowho lied and said he was 12 and under
- cstejerean 19y agoget those 12 and under users off the site unless they have parental consent.
- mellampudi 19y agoWe have kids under 12 here !!!
- pchristensen 19y agoWell, we have people claiming to be under 12.