Perfect example of why internet polling will NEVER WORK.

[MsUnderstood]

Here, today in America we can examine for ourselves why Internet Polling will NEVER work.

Everyone, please click here:
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808569540&cf=info

Now Examine how the movie is ranked at an A- by critics but a C+ by yahoo users. Hmmm that makes sense once might conclude, because critics are naturally more like to give a movie a less favorable rating then . . .wait. . .it is reversed?

[tjwash]

1. I think the Dean thing showed...

...internet polling is basically very inaccurate.

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. No, that was a case of entirely different polls being "Freeped"

But let's not get off the subject at hand.

[tjwash]

4. That's why they are very innacurate.

They are skewed via nuking, or whatever you want to call it be it freeping or duing. Polls in general suck. Especially these "unbiased regional polls", because of the electoral college. We do not have "a" election. We have fifty seperate elections.

Hell go back and look at "Truman V. Dewey" All the polls back then said that Truman should not even be running, it was a waste of time. We all know what happened then:

[beyurslf]

2. Or it shows that critics are liberals like the rest of the media. <sarcasm

[damnraddem]

5. My local paper only gave F9/11 2-and-a-half stars, ...

the same they gave the stupid remake of 'Around the World in 80 Days.' The media is still solidly pro-Dubya. If they wanted, they could keep Freepers from freeping their polls.

[geek tragedy]

6. Film critics have remarkably different taste than the public

Lot's of films that do well with critics don't do well with the public, and vice versa.