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How is that misleading? It says "Do you work at at startup", not "did you"

• notacoward 13y ago
  It's misleading because if anyone associates certain properties or beliefs to "startup people" vs. "big company" then they'd almost certainly draw the wrong conclusions about me from that answer. In other words, they would be misled. Likewise, any statistical correlation with other properties or beliefs would be skewed by people like me who were habitually one group but just happened to be in the other at the precise moment of asking. When gathering any sample, it can be useful to know about confounding factors or exceptions.
  • dopamean 13y ago
    The poll isn't about you. A poll generally is about where a group of people stand at a given moment in time. There is nothing misleading about asking if someone currently works at a startup.
    • notacoward 13y ago
      Oh, so it was asked without any intention whatsoever of drawing any conclusions that might be affected by the number of anomalies in that small sample? Do you know what the right thing is to do with extra information that you don't think affects the validity of a sample? Ignore it. There's no need to get on people's case for volunteering extra information just in case it would matter to someone interpreting it. The poll isn't about you either.
  • dshefchik 13y ago
    I'm glad I don't work at your big company
    • notacoward 13y ago
      So am I.