Poll Definition and 168 Threads

I am seriously curious as to our collective opinion on this "devisive" issue. I am hoping people will vote according to their informed opinion (rather than what they hope is true, or what the pundits of their political persuasions are saying). The poll comes in two parts. This is part one. Do...

poll: define 'forgive and forget' This is a poll - but I can't make the answers fit into radio buttons. i.e. I'd like as many responses as possible, even if they're very short. What is your literal understanding of the intent of the phrase 'forgive and forget'? What do the words in the...

This poll presents these options "I experience life as a physical phenomenon" and "I experience life as a non - physical phenomenon" and will include the obligatory third option of "all of the above" and the 4th choice "I experience life in a way other than physical, non-physical and not...

What's Your Linux Distribution? I have just started learning the ropes with Ubuntu, and haven't yet tried others. If you're a Linux user (home/work/uni/wherever), which 'distro' is your favourite? If you use a variant of a particular distro (for example, Kubuntu), please say so. You can also...

This is amazing, why has his approval rating suddenly jumped up? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's approval rating has rebounded to 44 percent, the highest level in a year, in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the newspaper reported on Tuesday. Bush's approval rating...

Ok guys, this is the poll. Is there only a very small minority of educated people that are AGW skeptics? Global warming skeptics? I think most of us here are aquainted with the subject's aire de academia, but, please vote only if you know more than what was served to you on a silver platter...

the third quarter is July thru September by the end of this month we will have some perspective on the non-string QG research posted this quarter--or at least we'll know what was posted. What research do you think should be nominated for third quarter "MIP" ("most influential paper") so far...

Some people think that this is gender-related, so I'm posting the poll with an additional option.

First off, let me put my little disclaimer out there: There are thousands, if not millions, of factors which influence approval ratings/poll numbers. I am not saying that this effect, if found to exist, is decisive. Additionally, this is not a political potshot or dig against anybody. Poll...

A poll to see what your gas milage is. I will start: Car: 98 Accord 4-door Engine: Straight-4 Gas milage (when it was gasoline): ~25mpg. Gas milage (now that we have 10% ethanol) ~21mpg. I lost roughly 4-5 miles for every gallon now that we are using 10% ethanol in our gasoline...

Just pretend I'm from another planet and am learning the basics on Earth. If you buy head lettuce from the grocery, do you rinse it before putting it on your bread? What you do with it in other circumstances (such as making a whole salad) is another matter.

the results in this case are very simple. Over a dozen of us guessed as to whether (understood "in a reasonable time") Loll's team would be able to extend the sum-over-topologies result from 2D to 3D and ultimately to 4D. Of the 12 people who registered a forecast, and are still forum members...

Just wish to draw your attention to what some of us in Hong Kong think about the protocal blunders on the part of the White House in its reception of Hu. http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htm

Please post suggestions for what could turn out to be "Most Influential Paper" that you see between now and June. We just had a 1st quarter 2006 M.I.P. forecast poll and 11 people responded by indicated which of 6 papers they predicted to be the most valuable for future research. Those were 6...

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511583 there was a conference August 2005 of 80-some people involved in exoplanet search and they had some votes like by what method do you expect the first EARTHY planet will be found? this article which was just posted today on arxiv has a summary of...

Will people always pick the stupid answer.

Did you understand the "work for no pay" poll? Russ is saying you didn't understand what I was asking. I think some of you didn't, but most of you did. So did you? Private poll, answer yes or no.

If these candidates were up for presidency, which one would you want?

Let's have your say :smile:

Ok here's the situation: You live next door to couple that has 2.3 children, 2 cars, etc etc blah blah normal people right? Let's say that you notice the wife/woman has bruises on her a lot and you always hear screaming coming from the house. You know the man is an alcoholic as well. How...

http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:hep-th/0507235 sA predicted that Smolin "The Case for Background Independence" would garner 50-69 UK downloads thru end September 2005 that is essentially in the first two full months (aug and sept) that it was posted it would...

Do you think it will be better if we have a memory chip in our head to memorise anything we want,without any problem? 1 Yes 2 No

Which browser do you use? If your using IE you should consider switching to firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/

In this thread, I got a lot of different replies on exactly how to interpret Bell's theorem. Some suggested relativity must be wrong; others suggested Bell's inequality might not disprove locality, but some other assumption Bell made (such as an assumption based on the existence of a reality)...

Was the 2004 US election rigged? Specifically, do you think the machines could be and were tampered with, in order to skew a result in favor of Bush. This is not a question about other forms of vote - tampering (disenfranchisement, etc). I am also curious for the correlation between your...

I saw this question on Swordfish (awesome movie!) and wanted to ask a variation of it here. If you had the chance to permanently cure all diseases, but the price of doing this was that you had to kill a child, would you? How bout 100, how bout 10,000?

[Poll] Should highly biased art be placed in US government buildings So what do you think? Should partisan artwork be allowed in government buildings such as court houses, libraries, and the DMV (or as its more popularly known as, hell). And to clarify, artwork that would be considered a...

I don't usually. and that option should say 'I don't want to' and it should say 'won't let me be alone' I really can't spell today, sheesh !

ellipse raised this issue of "string deadend?" or where is string research going. like, is it currently in a slump but will pick up later? or is it going down the tubes, or what? so if you want to, let's put down what we forecast for 2005 and then later, probably early next year when the...

Here's my question of the day...

Poll: NEW name for school or not? Hi all, I am off to university in the fall. My name is Peter, but I was thinking about going by Pete once school starts up. I am trying to move away from the nerdy aura that currently surrounds me, and I think Pete would be a more casual easy going guy than...

Some of you are aware of the fact I have already prepared two chemical calculators (see signature). I am planning to extend the line of programs and I have several ideas about what could the next calculator do. However, before starting work I decided to do a quick poll: What type of...

Poll: Best invention ever and why? I'm going to start over on my science project and hope to get some ideas. And please don't ask what it was before because it was really really bad.

Some time ago in a thread by Canute I made the statement that we have only two alternatives to the beginning of this universe. Either something, the Big Bang, etc, came from nothing or something is eternal. Of course it is indeterminant or undecidable; but, we all have beliefs and/or opinions...

The text of this post is in white to have less influence on poll results. I have a theory that children may have stunted brainpower as a result of unhappy conditions--more intelligence would bring the world into unpleasant focus, so as a defense mechanism the child might learn to think less...

This is for those who believe QM includes a phase of unitary evolution. In ordinary QM the state is given by a complex vector (actually a ray) in Hilbert space and it evolves by unitary operators transforming it. Does this complex thing and its behavior exist in out spacetime? If not, then...

http://www.oscars.org/ The Academy Awards are up in a few weeks. Wanna make a little bet on how is going to win ? I go for Clint eastwood in Million Dollar Baby and the Aviator of Scorsese... regards marlon The poll is NOT for best picture but for DIRECTING...sorry about the mistake...

Now this may sound rather stupid, but I'm just curious: Of the people who interact with and use this site, how many are INTPs or INTJs? Do those temperaments form the majority (or the largest subgroup) of this site's users? These are two of the possible 16 results of the ""Keirsey...

BACK FROM THE DEAD: Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 Exit Poll Uh oh, seems this one is not quite dead yet! Apparently some of those 'crazy liberal elitist' academicians have a problem with the discrepency during our last vote. Gee, why am I not surpised!:rolleyes...

Is this good or bad? http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7177361 RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Islamic militant group Hamas made significant gains in Palestinian municipal elections, the first contested by the group sworn to destroying Israel, initial...

In honour of the 41st anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, I'm posting this simple poll: Who do you think killed JFK? Lee Harvey Oswald alone? Lee Harvey Oswald + conspiracy of others? Conspiracy of others not including Oswald? Another single individual? (my apologies...

If someone has already done this I apologize. I looked (briefly) but I didn't see one. And being that curiosity probably brought all of us here, i figured you would understand as I satiate mine for the moment.

In the quantum tunnelling process, where an electron tunnels though the potential barrier, we known this to be true by always seeing the electron we test for. We have always found what we were looking for and therefore have NEVER considered or thought about any other vallid or acceptable...

Hi all, I have a question driving me crazy about Planck length: 1.- PL is the minimum length possible. This is, there is no length under PL. 2.- Of course there are lengths under PL, but our laws stop in PL (in the meaning that they can say nothing under PL BY NOW) Please, vote 1 or 2...

If we decided to get rid of the secret ballot, it would solve most of the problems with the sabotage of the voting system. Basically, all that would have to be done is print in a public publication: 1. the citizens full name 2. the vote they made 3. their address Can everybody say...

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-02-2004/0002263797&EDATE= OKay, so there they are...big fat kiss to the first person who can name at least two major issues with this one.

Here's the new Gallup poll relating to public trust in the media. Too bad that the CBS shenanigans has to spill all over the media in general – but that 'appears' to be what’s happening. It makes me wonder how this new level of public distrust will pay out in the election results. The new Gallup...

Conflict of interest can be proven, when terror attacks directly or indirectly positively affect a presidential candidate’s business circumstances. In this regard, the level of 'conflict of interest' of a presidential candidate and their business connections is directly proportionate to the...

quantum computers---the poll! Come on! This is your opportunity to influence in the future Quantum computation is advancing firmly, problems of the past have been solved thanks to Shor's code, and decoherence does not seem now such a big problem. What of these 3 techniques (or other) will be...

ok, which is it?