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Dang, this is no fun. It mostly fits a bell curve. Normally if you ask this, you'll get like 75-90% of people saying they're above average ("How good of a dri
by pchristensen 19y ago
Dang, this is no fun. It mostly fits a bell curve. Normally if you ask this, you'll get like 75-90% of people saying they're above average ("How good of a driver are you?" is a classic).
- curi 19y agoMaybe news.yc readers are above average, compared to those other people :) Or maybe they have heard about those other results and are intentionally voting for underrepresented options to make the poll come out less ridiculous. Or maybe voter/lurker bias is the real problem ;)
- mixmax 19y agoI think the problem is that the voters are smart enough to know the statistical classification for this kind of poll and vote accordingly to plug the holes. So in this poll I'm pretty dumb.