#see results

[curiositysavesthecat]

“See results” button in a tumblr poll isn’t going to skew the results, and I think more people need to know this.

“See results” button is there so that people who don’t feel comfortable voting for whatever reason can still be able to participate in the poll.

Actually, a poll without a see results button tends to have its results skewed more than a poll with one, because once people don’t want to vote but want to see the results and there’s no “see results” button, more often than not, they will literally just vote anything their finger lands on. Just to see these results. They might as well close their eyes while voting just for the hell of it. And that’s how your results actually got skewed.

“But see results button fucks up the percentage of the poll” ummm, no, it doesn’t. Really. All you have to do is pretend that “see results” doesn’t exist and look at the percentages of the rest of the answer choices. It just won’t be a hundred percent when you combine them together, but it still works just the same.

For instance, and I’m very bad at math, when a poll asks “Do you like cookies or pancakes”

30% votes cookies

20% votes pancakes

50% votes see results

You can still know that people tend to like cookies more than they do pancakes. Just pretend that 50% of the see results does not exist. And there you go. And if you’re better at math than I am or if you’re not as lazy as I am, you can even do your own more thorough calculations to completely dismiss that 50% of the see results if you really want the rest of the numbers to be a hundred percent while combined together.

That “see results” you often see isn’t just there to skew the results, guys. It’s actually there to make sure the results aren’t skewed.

[hot-take-tournament]

HOT TAKE TOURNAMENT!

PRELIMINARY #287

Submission 899

Tumblr polls shouldn't have a "See results" option

I can't tell you how many polls I've seen where the results are single digits for the real options and 80% "See results", "I don't do this thing", "I don't know this character", "not from this country", "not this identity", etc.

I get the idea is that by giving an option to people who want to see the results without randomly picking something that doesn't apply to them, it means the votes for the real options are genuine. But if "See results" makes the results meaningless anyway, what's the point?

Propaganda is always encouraged!

And remember to reblog your favourite polls for exposure!

[enbyroses]

can we stop fucking including the “see results” option in polls? literally it adds fucking nothing and is just going to throw off the actual results

[best-undertale-song]

Round Four

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[violetlunette]

Mr. See Results heh? So it a he.

Considering NRC's a boy's school, that's how he identifies himself to save effort.

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[whyissupernaturaltrending]

November 2-4, 2024 - Supernatural continues to trend on and off as Tumblr prepares itself for the annual destiel games Nov 5 celebration.

This year the US decided to hold its presidential elections on Nov 5 as well, bringing back the trauma memories of the destielputinelection from four years ago. Putin has a chance to do the funniest thing...

[spooksier]

the place adventure time has in just culture in general is so so funny to be because it's so prevalent whether through just merch with characters on it or designs directly referencing the style/aesthetics and yet most people have not actually seen the show past season 1-5 (including me until like a year ago!) so if you try to explain any post s5 adventure time plot where it basically became a complete different show you sound fucking insane. they don't even know about princess bubblegum's gay cousin chicle. they don't even know about my dear friend fern.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Whatever the result is, I will attempt to recreate it as a drawing!

[elizabro]

please consider how you engage with aaron bushnell's death. you may react to it as you will, but it's crucial to remember that his death was specifically a call to action. it was not meant solely to shock but to draw attention to a vast moral hypocrisy: that to many, a soldier dying in a campaign backed by the U.S. government is noble, even if the soldier kills innocents to do so, even if the cause is morally bankrupt--but this? this is insanity. a man taking his own life, on his own terms, in an attempt to help others while hurting nobody else, is somehow less rational and more horrifying than the mass killing of civilians.

of course aaron's death was horrific. but as he said beforehand, it is realistically no more horrific than what's happening in gaza. if we can't stomach this, then why can we stomach children being bombed? thousands being starved? for all that self immolation is, it brings death in a matter of minutes. it is a fraction of the amount of pain, fear, and grief that people in gaza are experiencing. it's just that we are able to quantify it. and this tiny, quantifiable sliver of horror is still so unbelievably awful. how can anyone bear to think about anything else when this horror is happening a millionfold in palestine? this is the question aaron bushnell was asking. and he wanted you to face it, head-on, watching him burn to death.

I've been seeing people make fanart. minimalist graphics to sell on t-shirts. to commodify his death, to mythologize it not a day afterwards, is not only in poor taste but a hindrance to his message. the answer is not commodification, nor is it defeatism, nor is it rejoicing in his death. if you want to honor aaron's legacy, take action. channel your horror and your outrage into making a material change. this wasn't about him. this was about palestine. remember that it was always about palestine.

[hrokkall]

"Sad Cat Poem" by Spencer Madsen

[egophiliac]

(looks at upcoming card releases)

I'm in danger :)