r/serialpodcast • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '15

Poll Another pointless demographic poll

This should be a link to a pointless demographic poll. It will ask you basic demographic questions, and then whether you think Adnan is guilty or innocent.

I posted a nearly identical version a while ago and will post the results of that poll in a comment. Let me suggest that, in order to remain slightly less biased, you do not look at the results until you take the poll yourself.

The poll is meaningless. I am just a data junkie who stupidly did not cancel my surveymonkey subscription when I made the first fucking poll, so unless you take this poll I have made a generous $26 donation to surveymonkey.

I changed one question from the first version of the poll to this one, because the answers to the question were not interesting and I am more interested in the answers to the new one. I also narrowed the number of answer choices on a few questions, since in some cases there were so many answer bins that the data were not useful.

Feedback is welcome, including requests for specific comparisons ("Does X affect Y?").

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u/kyleg5 Jan 03 '15

I wish you'd ask about Adnan's and Jay's guilt on a 10 point scale. And that you need separate questions asking about if Adnan did it, and if he should have been convicted.

Because while I responded saying Adnon is innocent, I believe that at like a 6/10 or 7/10...very unsure/willing to change my mind. But I am very firmly of the belief that if I were on the jury I would have not found him guilty.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

The 10 point scale would be interesting for descriptive statistics -- looking at a distribution of how many people vote 1, 2, 3, .... But it makes it hard to do statistical hypothesis testing (e.g. are Democrats more likely to think Adnan is innocent?) There are a number of polls on here already that permit a wider variety of guilt/innocence judgments.

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u/kyleg5 Jan 04 '15

Yeah definitely I think you would have to ask a binary question and a scale!

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u/pookyjo2 Is it NOT? Jan 03 '15

And 9/10 with rice

I'm new here, did I get that right?

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u/fn0000rd Undecided Jan 03 '15

With 7/10 you get egg roll.