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Aielyn said:
the_dark_lewd said:
Almost statistically impossible that you'd have a turnaround.

It's a weird fact about statistics that randomness gives you a representative figure incredibly quickly. If you have a site with about 50,000 users, you only need to really poll the first 100 or 200 and it'll pretty much give you the same percentages as if you polled all 50,000.

Very few people seem to know this.

This is only true if the poll gets a reasonably random sample. Online polls are notorious for not being random samples, due to an inherent self-selection bias.

True. Although only in some places. If it's a general question like "what was your favourite game of 2015?", I doubt there's much a selection bias going on.