I love the polls ! We should put more (with nationality for example )

QuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXI love the polls ! We should put more (with nationality for example )surely nobody will vote for the french

QuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelQuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXI love the polls ! We should put more (with nationality for example )surely nobody will vote for the frenchWrong ! ME

QuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelQuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXI love the polls ! We should put more (with nationality for example )surely nobody will vote for the frenchdepends on the question.For exampleWhich european nationality showers the least ? would likely elicit a different response toWhich european country brews the best beer ?

QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelQuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXI love the polls ! We should put more (with nationality for example )surely nobody will vote for the frenchdepends on the question.For exampleWhich european nationality showers the least ? would likely elicit a different response toWhich european country brews the best beer ?To be honest I can easily see there being significant correlation between the two answers

QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunQuoteOriginally posted by: HansiQuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelQuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXI love the polls ! We should put more (with nationality for example )surely nobody will vote for the frenchdepends on the question.For exampleWhich european nationality showers the least ? would likely elicit a different response toWhich european country brews the best beer ?To be honest I can easily see there being significant correlation between the two answers Yes, ... We need independe between polls to maximize information retrieval, a good diversified poll portfolioYou want to try info arbitrage ? Becareful because no ones can check if the poll answers are true

QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunlot of extra "Bank" votes since this thread was moved to this Off TopicInteresting! It's too bad that the poll was not announced simultaneously in every forum so we could track the employment state of different Wilmott sub-populations.

QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunQuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaQuoteOriginally posted by: outrunlot of extra "Bank" votes since this thread was moved to this Off TopicInteresting! It's too bad that the poll was not announced simultaneously in every forum so we could track the employment state of different Wilmott sub-populations.actually, if we would track the votes in time, then asynchronous announcements would allow us to deconvolute Indeed! Yet it might be hard to deconvolve people's primary forums if they have visited the poll through a link on a secondary forum that was posted first.

I think this is where physicist resort to renormalization. The other way out would be to have a large negative fraction in the Maybe category.