in reply to Re: Is it real? (mu)
in thread Is it real?

It's a bad poll.

It asks about the reality of something; without listing what that something refers to. Then it lists a bunch of things that some people believe are real, and others don't.

What if I believe in everything on the list except two are real? I would probably vote for one of them -- but which one?

What if I believe that nothing on the list except two are real? Again, I would probably vote for one of them -- and again, which one should I vote for?

It's a bad poll. It doesn't present a set of mutually exclusive options with an opinion-based decision critera to choose among them; which is the whole point of a poll.

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Re^3: Is it real? (mu)
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jun 02, 2006 at 21:57 UTC

    You're taking this whole poll thing waaaay too seriously. Next, you'll complain it's not scientific.

    (For the record, I don't care for the polls, so I simply don't vote for them. That doesn't mean I whine about the things I don't like about 'em - I just change the channel and move on. Obviously, I read the replies once in a while, especially when I don't remember that the thread is a poll instead of a SoPW or Meditation.)

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      You're taking this whole poll thing waaaay too seriously.

      Basic spelling, grammar, and logic are the minimum requirements for proper social interaction: it's rude to force other people to guess at your meaning, to be deliberately unclear, or to speak or reason incorrectly; it suggest that you don't care enough about your peers to spend the time to do it right.

      I don't know what's happening to people's manners and morals, but it isn't good.

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        Basic spelling, grammar, and logic are the minimum requirements for proper social interaction: it's rude to force other people to guess at your meaning, to be deliberately unclear, or to speak or reason incorrectly; it suggest that you don't care enough about your peers to spend the time to do it right.

        Shouldn't that say "spend the time to do it correctly"? It should, at least, use the adverb rather than adjective form of the word, even if you are intent upon confusing morality with grammatical precision (as, it appears, you are).

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