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Eugenics is a ____ idea

Extremely horrific
27.2%
Pretty bad
23.7%
Mixed/good and bad
38.8%
Pretty good
10.3%

3,551 votesFinal results

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More interesting than the gist of the results: having two negative option ("horrific" vs. merely "bad") visually skews the impact of the results. Many polls use similar techniques with more subtlety.

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Ur welcome to try to introduce subtlety to twitters 25-characer limit 4-option twitter polls

9:16 AM · Jan 26, 2021

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You may be misunderstanding my point. I was not casting aspersions on the poll. I'm suggesting that people be more wary of how they approach the "gut feeling" they get from glancing at poll results, and especially from the shape or curve presented in graphs thereof.

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