jetboots
22 Feb 2005, 02:55 AM
This might not be so much a suggestion, so much as something that would be really cool, but probably not super plausable:
Polls are nice, but really you can only get so much done with them, and as an INTP I think taking them to the next level would be very interesting in some ways.
For instance say I wanted to know if there is a correlation between males and belief in god vs. females belief in god and what is the god you believe in if you do and if you dont why? Yes you could now put about 20 different options in our method of polling now, but after so many options, the message gets lost, and it ends up being a spread out statistic about something rediculous.
On the other hand if the same problem was being approached, but in the same poll you had the option of asking more then once, then it could be like a "staged polling" First q: are you male or female? 2nd q: do you belive in god? 3rd question: (now this would be customised depending how you answered the 2nd)...etc etc. see where im goin with this?
In the end, not only would you get the answer the answer to your question much more simply, but you also have many other stats that could be found out and displayed as a bi product, like in this case, what is the male to female ratio answering this survay?
Then of course you can make it even more crazy too where age, hair colour, viginity etc etc etc all can play as separate and distinct variables. In the end, depending on how this polling thing would be set up, there could be a LOT of information that could be drawn from the question
Now to get even more intense: these polls could have associated with them REAL statisitics; standard deviation, number of samples, probabilities inferred from the gathered stats etc etc. Of course this would be something that is hidden and can be seen at will, so that people who dont care or dont know what that is all about dont have to look at it.
I think its very plausible in a way, given that it would make some polls much more scientifically valuble. Also, I gather that there are a lot of computer programming buffs in here, and although I'm not a buff, I have taken the courses and can see that this would not be the hardest thing to make. Plus, this is cool shit:P
Draw downs: much more complicated.
Draw ups: since when do INTPs not like complexity?:|
Polls are nice, but really you can only get so much done with them, and as an INTP I think taking them to the next level would be very interesting in some ways.
For instance say I wanted to know if there is a correlation between males and belief in god vs. females belief in god and what is the god you believe in if you do and if you dont why? Yes you could now put about 20 different options in our method of polling now, but after so many options, the message gets lost, and it ends up being a spread out statistic about something rediculous.
On the other hand if the same problem was being approached, but in the same poll you had the option of asking more then once, then it could be like a "staged polling" First q: are you male or female? 2nd q: do you belive in god? 3rd question: (now this would be customised depending how you answered the 2nd)...etc etc. see where im goin with this?
In the end, not only would you get the answer the answer to your question much more simply, but you also have many other stats that could be found out and displayed as a bi product, like in this case, what is the male to female ratio answering this survay?
Then of course you can make it even more crazy too where age, hair colour, viginity etc etc etc all can play as separate and distinct variables. In the end, depending on how this polling thing would be set up, there could be a LOT of information that could be drawn from the question
Now to get even more intense: these polls could have associated with them REAL statisitics; standard deviation, number of samples, probabilities inferred from the gathered stats etc etc. Of course this would be something that is hidden and can be seen at will, so that people who dont care or dont know what that is all about dont have to look at it.
I think its very plausible in a way, given that it would make some polls much more scientifically valuble. Also, I gather that there are a lot of computer programming buffs in here, and although I'm not a buff, I have taken the courses and can see that this would not be the hardest thing to make. Plus, this is cool shit:P
Draw downs: much more complicated.
Draw ups: since when do INTPs not like complexity?:|