- From: Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzartner@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:34:17 +0200
- To: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
- Cc: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kanghaol@oupeng.com>, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
> | Why don't you go ahead and create a poll? > | > > Because we already made a poll? To be honest, I don't believe polls can > solve the problem. Or, at least, polls will not solve the problem alone. > Creating surveys is very challenging, because it's very difficult to reach a > representative population of web devs and giving a fair chance to both > solutions. > > Windows Phones are not very popular among the general population but people > having a Windows Phone are generally really happy with it, to the point > Windows Phone is often able to win the people's price in some online > competitions. To analyse a poll result, you've to go deep in understanding > which referrer the people followed, how the results evolved over time and > the reason why people reached the poll page. > > Polls are very good indicators of users interest, but not often good > decision-making tools. Unfortunately your poll didn't reach me. Of course polls can't be used as decision-making tools when they don't reach a representative amount of people. And to reach a representative amount of people you'll have to share the link via different (neutral) sources and let it run for some time. If polls are not the solution for making a decision on this, what shall be done instead? Following the discussions about this in the mailing list there are just a few people arguing for the one or the other side. So the mailing list obviously can't be used to reach enough people to make a decision. Sebastian
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