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Re: Minus Fortyone Votes ???
Posted By: wintermute, on host 195.153.64.90
Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 03:22:50
In Reply To: Minus Fortyone Votes ??? posted by Stephan on Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 03:07:08:

> Hail Thee,
>
> My subject line in fact relates to cheesburgers (yes, it does, do read on). Just now I ventured into the "Readors Poll" section of RinkWorks. A fascinating place, especially when looking at the relationship between questions and number of poll participants :-) In there I found the cheesburger poll, especially the one questioning the "toppingness" of the cheese. To share my own confusion locate that poll and click on it. You will see and amazing -41 votes in favour of cheese being a valid cheesburger topping ... How can there be a negative number of voters ???

I wondered that myself when I first saw it. I can only imagine that it's some kind of overflow error due to the huge number of voters (over 10,000). It's kind of weird, but unless the innumeracy pixies have been working their mischief again, I can't think of another explanation.

winter"100.4%?"mute

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