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sandyarmstrong
on April 12, 2013
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Poll: What is your age?
But that's not really the same at all. There is a huge difference between not voting and voting with "don't want to disclose". The former is unusable as a data point, while the latter is something that can be analyzed and discussed.
arcatek
on April 12, 2013
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Sure. But by checking a wrong answer, we now have an unusable data point AND we have skewed the poll ...
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