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The Poll Aggregators of the Future Are Reproducible and Open Source

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Re: The Poll Aggregators of the Future Are Reproducible and Open Source

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Totally misleading title. "Polls" is one thing, poll aggregators are a whole other thing. I was really excited to read about actual polls that are somehow open source (not sure how that would work though).

Open source would not be nearly as impressive as reproducible.

Yes, although is reproducibility even possible in polls? People's opinions change on a whim. In fact people's opinions can change simply because they were asked a question so the answer might be different if asked the question again,

I guess you could conduct the same poll with multiple sets of people and see how the results compare, but in a way that's what poll aggregators do.

Re: The Poll Aggregators of the Future Are Reproducible and Open Source

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open source would not be nearly as impressive as reproducible.

Yes, although is reproducibility even possible in polls? People's opinions change on a whim. In fact people's opinions can change simply because they were asked a question so the answer might be different if asked the question again, I guess you could conduct the same poll with multiple sets of people and see how the results compare, but in a way that's what poll aggregators do.

Isn't the reasonable definition of reproducible for a poll having overlapping margins of error? A useful poll should do that.

The result is qualified, comparisons of results shouldn't ignore that.

Re: The Poll Aggregators of the Future Are Reproducible and Open Source

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Totally misleading title. "Polls" is one thing, poll aggregators are a whole other thing. I was really excited to read about actual polls that are somehow open source (not sure how that would work though).

OK, we've added "Aggregators" to the story title to clarify.
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