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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3803980, member: 76863"]Because it just isn't even remotely close to it. That's not even trying to be a knock but it just isn't. Even if the poll had 200 votes the margin of error would be so massive trying to apply it to collectors as a whole or especially as collectors world wide that it's just meaningless in that sense. There's no random selection in voluntary polls especially not on the internet. </p><p><br /></p><p>Forums also have the friend aspects, number of posts from a poster etc that influence opinions. People will vote to support their friends or someone they like or that just don't actually know the answer but want to vote anyways etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>The over whelming majority of collectors don't post on coin forums. Coin forum polls are representative of the coin forum members, but really nothing more. </p><p><br /></p><p>For broad questions we need much bigger samples, controlled samples, and/or real data such as from the market which we have and often times goes against the opinion of small forum polls which often contain heavy amounts of personal bias.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3803980, member: 76863"]Because it just isn't even remotely close to it. That's not even trying to be a knock but it just isn't. Even if the poll had 200 votes the margin of error would be so massive trying to apply it to collectors as a whole or especially as collectors world wide that it's just meaningless in that sense. There's no random selection in voluntary polls especially not on the internet. Forums also have the friend aspects, number of posts from a poster etc that influence opinions. People will vote to support their friends or someone they like or that just don't actually know the answer but want to vote anyways etc. The over whelming majority of collectors don't post on coin forums. Coin forum polls are representative of the coin forum members, but really nothing more. For broad questions we need much bigger samples, controlled samples, and/or real data such as from the market which we have and often times goes against the opinion of small forum polls which often contain heavy amounts of personal bias.[/QUOTE]
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