Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Ooops

VHeadline, you may recall, was running an online poll on the Chavez referendum issue. When I posted about it earlier, the poll results were very heavily pro-Chavez, which I suggested was in large part due to the likelihood that most readers were pro-Chavez.

Well, an anti-Chavez reader took issue with the way the poll was worded, suggesting it was misleading, so VHeadline restructured the poll, and whooops....

VENEZUELA: In the event of a national referendum, should Hugo Chavez Frias remain as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
YES (15.8 %)185 votes
NO (84.2 %)983 votes

1168 people have taken part in this poll



Either there are more anti-Chavez readers of VHeadline than I would have imagined but who aren't very careful about how they read a poll, pro-Chavez people voted more than once each (a quirk that has been fixed in the new poll), or the anti-Chavez reader who complained sent word to a bunch of friends to spike the poll.

At any rate, it's still a good lesson in online polls - they're even more meaningless than independent "scientific" polls.

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