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Serious empirical research concerning, for example preferences, in a polling or questionnaire situation, generally does require upfront explanation. Subjects typically are expected to read the explanation prior to responding. Regardless, responding to my poll is absolutely straight forward. If the first or second response does not fit you, then the third obviously does. There is really no reason to read my explanation to reply correctly to the poll. But, I included the explanation for obvious reasons. Regardless, you automatically know exactly why the third response if correct if you choose it--you are not having either of the experiences noted in the first two responses. Given your comments, I think you are an obvious third-response person. Why not vote? If you think there is bias (i.e., some not voting for whatever reason), then you are helping to create it. Please note there probably are some who would choose one of the first two responses, but elected not to vote for some reason. Unfortunately, we cannot control for the issue of those not responding that could have obviously done so given our forum tools. In this regard, we also can't choose our sample, ensure that explanations are read and understood, or follow up in regard to non-respondents. In sum, our polls are generalizable to larger populations only accidentally. And, we can't tell what the populations are for with statistical accuracy. So, all of our polls are biased in the sense that their results can be interpreted as applying only to those that responded.But, I thought it would be better to have a logical flow that makes it easy to figure out how to respond. I am concerned that some may not have voted out of lack of understanding. I will add something up front to help out on this point. Best to you.
You shouldn't have to explain or guide anyone in answering your poll, the questions should do that for you. You have two very specific questions followed by a general "catch all" question that is open to interpretation. If I were to answer yes to either the first or second question I wouldn't have to explain my answer. If I answer yes to the third question you don't know why. I could be answering because I like the Start Screen over the Start Menu, or I could be answering because whether it had a Start Menu or not I still hate Windows 8. Someone visiting the site and looking at the poll results without reading the thread is going to think it is a poll of people who hate the Start Screen. In other words it creates a bias in the results. I didn't answer the poll because my explanation for choosing the third question would not be captured correctly in the poll results, unlike the first two questions.
The poll results do not imply that a lot of people hate the start screen. In the context you are getting at, the poll simply implies that some are not having either the experiences noted in the first two possible responses. That doesn't come close to implying that they hate the start screen. For example, I certainly don't. I just hardly ever find a reason to use it. My main start-menu replacement is a tool bar on the desktop taskbar containing app and folder shortcuts--which functions rather like a third-party start-menu replacement.
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