Poll Hijack - favourite football code

[kepo]

This poll has shown that Union is dead

 

[brett]

If you have more than one web browser, you can vote twice or more

or u delete your cookies and cache(Clear private data in firefox)

This little conversation illustrates why i suspect a survey in this format would return a different result to, say, (for example) one conducted by a Bundaberg or Cougar-type promo girl asking the question at a shitty nightclub.

Just a theory.

How many out of the 10,000 in the poll could be f**ked sitting there doing that though? More accurate getting 10k with that sort of aberration than getting 100 blokes in the pub.

The bigger unbalancers would be the forum spams and the fact that it's football season and off-season for the rest. They wouldn't be logging onto foxsports as much in January.

 

[Davo]

The trouble with internet polls, as mentioned above, there are several ways you can easily vote again and again without being detected.  All it would take is one obsessed fan with a few computer skills to register a few thousand votes for his sport. 

Assuming people don't do this and are actually interested in an accurate prediction then an online survey I believe is a fair source.  The diversity of people using the internet these days assures most levels and groups of society and evenly reflected.