Quote from: BTCurious on October 31, 2011, 12:16:56 AM

Quote from: I.Goldstein on October 31, 2011, 12:13:58 AM

If the poll is going to have any stablility in the end, the majority will have to go with the 51%-99% answer. This is true objectivity.

Why? What makes you say that is stable? What if the 60% of the people thought 21-35 was correct, and the rest thought 51-99 was correct? There's nothing unstable about that, it would result in a poll with 60% of the votes on 21-35, and 40% of the votes on 51-99. That is not unstable! Sure, there's no right answer, but no one said there was.

This would be peculiar and possibly a coincidence. If people always chose 21-35, it would have to be correlated with a common behavior which I doubt exists. It's very unlikely this will happen and be a consistent result over various sample trials.

I am not saying that couldn't happen in one poll but if it happened once it would be very little. It would have to be repeatable to have any meaning in a scientific sense.