I’ll actively be avoiding the inauguration, unless I see/hear somewhere else that Trump’s been shot again at which point, I promise my attention will be fixed I tell you, fixed.
That’s the only way you’ll hear about Vance for the next four years.
I picked “dad didn’t smoke”, but it would be more accurate to say he didn’t smoke during my lifetime. From what I understand he did smoke when he was in the military before I was born.
Mom never smoked as far as I know, at least not tobacco. Both Mom and Dad went to college in the 1960s, and I know for a fact that both of them smoked other plants at that time.
That is also when my dad started. When I was a kid, his doctor gave him “the talk”, and he quit cigs, switched to cigars briefly, then a pipe. Later he was smoking only two pipes a day, he just liked to fiddle with it.
And you know, not having been in a combat zone in the military, I can’t blame guys who started then. Interestingly, when my dad got in he was a non smoker and traded his for candy.
My dad mostly smoked cigarettes, but he did smoke a pipe for a short time. Mom also once taled him into trying Swisher Sweets. That experiment was a resounding failure
Eh, some polls are targeted to a specific audience. Who wants to see 75% “None of the above”? That’s not interesting. If I’m not in the intended demographic for a given poll, I’ll either just skip it or go right to the results.
Discourse include a “not voting” option, so that those who do not want to vote or are otherwise not qualified to submit as opinion could lock the poll open in their browser – or register a non-vote іп a single-option poll.
Totally agree. If none of the options apply to you, the pollster is not interested in your response and constructed the poll as such.
For example, I did not vote in the quarterback poll because, for me, it would depend on my relationship with the QB and how much I trust his judgement. The poll maker only wants to hear from those who have a solid yes/no opinion, and that is ok.
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It’s true, I am an NFL team owner. 
That’s really a straw man. The fact is that people do make interesting polls, polls that are of personal interest, but sometimes they neglect to consider all the possible options. That’s the complaint.
Re: NFL, I think allowing people to purchase power is a bad thing to encourage, no matter the reason.
I would hope the decision-makers consulted the team, anyway; I don’t know how football works.
The current salary cap is about $270 million, so freeing up $60 million would be helpful, but not enough of a gamechanger (pun intended) to give up control of player selection to someone who is likely not very good at it.
If my poll is asking “What brand of helicopter do you own?”, then of course “I don’t own a helicopter” will be the runaway top choice. But that’s not what I want to know, and it will dilute the rest of the results. I only want people who own helicopters to answer. I don’t see why that upsets people.
It doesn’t. It’s the polls in which I have an applicable opinion that doesn’t fit in the options given that annoy me. You’d get useful answers (to the extent that any poll here is useful) to your helicopter poll, because the answers you’d get wouldn’t be misleading. Forcing answers into limited boxes for polls that would suitably have additional answers will get you misleading results.
But you could allow them to vote, and then just look at the second through Nth answers for your information.
(Though if you add “toy,” “model,” “literary,” “filmed,” and “imaginary,” you probably really would dilute your results in an unfortunate way.)
I agree. There’s been a shocking lack of hindu-atheist selections in recent poll.
Do I agree with Paul Simon about WHAT?
Are there really 50 ways to leave your lover?
No one ever dares to disturb the sound of silence?
Friendship causes pain?
If she once was a true love of mine, could she ever be so again?
I should hang on to me hopes?
She’s been fakin’ it?
Joltin’ Joe has left and gone away, for good?
Silver Girl’s time has indeed come to shine?
El Condor Pasa?
He’s the only living boy in all of New York?
Help me out here, @susan.
It’s lyrics from his song “Crazy Love, Vol. II,” from Graceland. The main reason I recognize it is that the line immediately before those (see below) is one of my all-time favorite single lines from a rock song.
If only there were a catch-all category for unusual choices!
Let’s focus on the important issue here; what exactly are those pigeons plotting?