# Perfect poll test **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 28, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766 "2010-08-28T04:43:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/1 "2010-08-28T04:43:33Z")
I just want to see if this works. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/2 "2010-08-28T04:50:12Z")
This is the perfect poll! You can figure out whether people will comment from the perspective of before or after they’ve voted. Sometimes, you’re just cool, Czar. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/3 "2010-08-28T04:58:14Z")
And any no votes are automatically disqualified. This is the world’s most accurate poll. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/4 "2010-08-28T09:12:37Z")
Why isn’t there an option for ‘I’m not sure. I might have done, but I can’t remember’? Or in a Schrodinger way, ‘I won’t be able to tell until I see the results’. When you get to my age there are so many imponderables. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/5 "2010-08-28T10:36:57Z")
I voted “No”, but now I need to change my vote. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/6 "2010-08-28T11:39:25Z")
Not only did I select “No, I have not voted in this poll”, I refuse to vote in this poll! You’ll get _nothing_ from me! Mwahahahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/7 "2010-08-28T17:57:49Z")
I voted “yes”, because I usually vote truthfully in these things. But it is showing 8 “no” votes at the moment, so it’s not working as intended (for me, anyway). ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/8 "2010-08-28T18:00:19Z")
At first I was like “no”… then when I all “yes” and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/9 "2010-08-28T18:04:39Z")
All “yes” voters are liars. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/10 "2010-08-29T03:30:23Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > All “yes” voters are liars. That was on _Star Trek_! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/11 "2010-08-29T03:57:50Z")
This is just too much pressure! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/12 "2010-08-29T04:18:31Z")
While this poll is as perfect as is possible on this board, the inspiration for it came from my son Colin, who wanted a _one_ choice poll-Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/13 "2010-08-29T13:27:12Z")
I never vote in polls so I truthfully voted no. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/14 "2010-08-29T14:06:50Z")
Considering the responses so far, maybe I should have titled it “The Bizarro Poll”. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/15 "2010-08-29T17:45:29Z")
All I can say is maybe. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/16 "2010-08-30T07:56:27Z")
This is much like the survey I did on-line recently. It was about whether I was voting for our incumbent senator or her opponent. Since I was voting for her, I was disqualified from the survey. Two days later I got the same result when, in a subsequent survey, I said I’d vote yes to eliminating state run liquor stores. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/17 "2010-08-30T16:39:24Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > This is much like the survey I did on-line recently. It was about whether I was voting for our incumbent senator or her opponent. Since I was voting for her, I was disqualified from the survey. > Two days later I got the same result when, in a subsequent survey, I said I’d vote yes to eliminating state run liquor stores. I know where you live! (I’m voting the same as you.) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/18 "2010-08-30T20:59:57Z")
Actually, if you had made both choices yes, then it would have been even more perfect (yes, I just used the phrase “more perfect”, stone me now). Because then, “Yes” would have gotten 100 percent of the votes either way. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/19 "2010-08-30T21:13:27Z")
How could anyone answer “Yes” if you’re only allowed to vote once, so if you’re voting, you can’t have voted? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766/20 "2010-08-30T21:45:50Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Actually, if you had made both choices yes, then it would have been even more perfect (yes, I just used the phrase “more perfect”, stone me now). Because then, “Yes” would have gotten 100 percent of the votes either way. If I recall the rules correctly, we are not allowed to stone anyone outside the pit! 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-poll-test/551766.md?page=2)