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How many votes will the most popular choice receive?

Displaying poll results.
< 50
  9% 31 votes
(50, 100]
  9% 31 votes
(100, 150]
  10% 34 votes
(150, 200]
  9% 29 votes
> 200
  26% 84 votes
Don't know / don't care
  9% 31 votes
What am I voting for?
  23% 76 votes
Other - Specify
  1% 4 votes
320 total votes.
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  • Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
  • Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
  • This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @09:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @09:16AM (#203684)

    Both the first and the second option exclude exactly 50 votes.

    BTW, for extra nerd credibility you could have used [0, 50) for the first and (200, ∞) for the fifth option.

    But for true nerd credibility you would have made all intervals half-open on the right hand side.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2015, @02:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2015, @02:54PM (#204262)

      I guess 50 then.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @03:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @03:09PM (#205296)

      All this talk about "true nerd cred" but ignoring the simplest option guaranteed to be technically correct and cover all outcomes: just one response option labeled "100%".

      Alternatively bypass the math circle jerk and go with smartassery by having any option be labeled "The most".

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by richtopia on Wednesday July 01 2015, @03:19PM

    by richtopia (3160) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @03:19PM (#203794) Homepage Journal

    I'll be correct if you close the poll now.

    But don't worry, I'm sure it will still be up a month from now.

  • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:24PM

    by DECbot (832) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:24PM (#203875) Journal

    'Cause my shell script says so.
       i=LONG_MAX;

    --
    cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by SrLnclt on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:31PM

    by SrLnclt (1473) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:31PM (#203921)

    The writer of this poll clearly needs more imagination.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2015, @04:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2015, @04:13PM (#205044)

      yeah? well we don't need your fancy square root of negative one here.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:55PM

        by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:55PM (#207120)

        You have made an enemy this day. The Quaternion Cabal is watching you.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Translation Error on Wednesday July 01 2015, @08:28PM

    by Translation Error (718) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @08:28PM (#203954)
    If we had a poll for how many votes the least popular choice received, I wonder how many people would vote for 'none'...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @06:36AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2015, @06:36AM (#205215)

      reminds me of the ol' auction for the $10 bill where the second-highest bidder pays

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by penguinoid on Thursday July 02 2015, @06:54AM

    by penguinoid (5331) on Thursday July 02 2015, @06:54AM (#204120)

    The most popular option will receive zero votes.

    Wish that had been a poll option. Could have had a math joke consisting of a single character, and they missed it.

    --
    RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2015, @04:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2015, @04:25AM (#204928)

    " This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again. "

  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Monday July 06 2015, @03:31AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Monday July 06 2015, @03:31AM (#205472) Journal

    Yah, 61% of the votes works REAL well for me!

  • (Score: 2) by Leebert on Wednesday July 08 2015, @12:55AM

    by Leebert (3511) on Wednesday July 08 2015, @12:55AM (#206291)

    One vote, Bob.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Subsentient on Wednesday July 08 2015, @07:59PM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Wednesday July 08 2015, @07:59PM (#206586) Homepage Journal

    Penis butter and jelly.

    --
    "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • (Score: 2) by threedigits on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:50PM

    by threedigits (607) on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:50PM (#207012)

    I miss a meme-riden humorous choice. Say, "Infinite: Chuck Norris can do without even clicking".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @03:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @03:20PM (#208924)

      Chuck Norris would never settle with merely infinitely many votes. He would vote so often that not even infinite numbers are large enough to express the vote count.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DECbot on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:11PM

        by DECbot (832) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @07:11PM (#209521) Journal

        "Chuck Norris." is a complete sentence.

        --
        cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base