Hi Phil,
Thanks again for your thoughts. I can see what you are saying from your example about the paychecks.
However, I would disagree that this is a major factor in this case discussing backgammon clock preferences. Being privy to the interim results and graphs I hope I can give some very general information about the responses so far without it having a major skew effect on subsequent votes.
That something is, the votes and graphs currently look quite organically spread i.e. I could see no obvious bias towards any status quo. (not that I'm sure what the 'status quo' is anyway - various organisations have various and differing rules even from city to city let alone country to country. This is one of the reasons I created the poll). In short, people seem to be voting quite freely.
There is further good news and there is bad news:
The good news is that there have been *over 100 responses* so far. These are from places as far afield as Austrailia and Argentina, so a big 'Thank you' to everybody who is taking / took part.
The bad news is, I screwed up. Surveymonkey only lets you see data for the 1st 100 responses, then they pop up a horrible message saying that you have hit the
"Maximum Response Limit: You have reached your limit of 100 survey responses. To see all 113 responses, upgrade to any pro plan."
See images below. They want £26 to be able to see the full set of results. I think it's pretty sneaky of them that they don't tell you about this limitation at the start.
I'm open to ideas on how to fund this £26 when the time comes to publish in a couple of months. Anybody who can donate a quid or two / sponsor this initiative pls email me. Would only need to activate an account for a single month to grab / export the full results into Excel once all votes are in.
To finish on a more positive note, here is some more interim data which may or may not give some insights and which should not skew any future submissions. I found the self classification question quite interesting.. good to see we have a lot of highly skilled respondents.
