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   Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️ (jan@fedi.kcore.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 23:44:19 JST Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan a yes/no (binary) question with four options.

   Can you *please* explain the rationale here, I am struggling to understand this thought process.

   No, a link to the faq is not useful.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 23:44:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jan I have a faq because people ask these questions all the time.

     https://evanp.me/pollfaq/#qualified

     However, because you insist, I will re-explain it to you, because you are very important and deserve special attention.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 23:48:30 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Brian Danger Hicks

     @jan This may seem like a binary question to you, but often there are exceptions. Like @ckape, who saw a laser light show, but not at a planetarium.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 23:53:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jan There are dozens of ways that someone could have a "sort of" response, and I like to leave space for those. I don't think I can enumerate them all.

     If you struggle to understand how some questions that seem absolutely binary to you may be less so for someone else, that's OK. If it's really important to you to get exact numbers, consider making your own poll without the "sort of" answers. Or you could enumerate all the ways someone could "sort of" have gone to a laser light show.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 00:00:37 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jan Here are some ways that someone could have "sort of" seen a laser light show, or not:

     * Don't remember the event because too young
     * Don't remember the event because too drunk/stoned
     * Fell asleep
     * Went for another event, but laser light show was demoed for some reason
     * Laser light show at another venue
     * Similar light and sound event at a planetarium, but not with lasers
     * Have laser light show equipment for personal use

     You might be able to come up with more!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 00:10:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jan I think it's probably worth looking at the results right now. About 20% of respondents answered qualified yes or qualified no. It was a useful choice for them. So, I'm glad it's there.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 03:17:26 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jan Thanks. Here's another one.

     https://fosstodon.org/@WilliamMcCormick/112299058682679976

     You might also like investigating fuzzy logic; it's a formal logic for propositions that are neither entirely true nor entirely false.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic

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     Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️ (jan@fedi.kcore.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 03:17:27 JST Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan But the question was:

     "Have you seen a lightshow at a planetarium".

     So to answer yes, you need to have a "yes" on both. Boolean logic.

     Yes and yes == yes
     yes and no == no
     no and no == no

     The question wasn't:
     *Have you seen a lightshow.
     * have you been to a planetarium.

     Accuracy matters :)
     But, your poll, your rules :)
     I'm just .. baffled.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 03:19:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jan I do one poll every 24 hours. I've gotten pretty good at formatting polls exactly how I want. It's OK if they're not exactly how *you* want, though.

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     Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️ (jan@fedi.kcore.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 03:19:18 JST Jan ☕🎼🎹☁️🏋️‍♂️

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan In essence then the question was wrongly formulated for the answer that you wanted. I know you don't want to define things too strictly, but...

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 04:50:58 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @jan I added a new faq for this, because it does come up pretty regularly.

     https://evanp.me/pollfaq#binary