Kevin Spraggett blog poll: Fact or Fiction

[Paul Beckwith]

Please choose what percentage of Kevin Spraggett's non-chess blog content is Fact versus Fiction...

[Luke Peristy]

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What's the difference between picking 50% fact and 50% fiction?

[Zeljko Kitich]

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Couldn't say, I never read his blog.

[Ken Craft]

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optimism or pessimism, Jerry.

[Kerry Liles]

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What's the difference between picking 50% fact and 50% fiction?

The sewer is half full or it is half empty.

[Gary Ruben]

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What's the difference between picking 50% fact and 50% fiction?

If a person is right most of the time or wrong most of the time, then you have an indication of what is fact or fiction.

If a person is right 50% of the time and wrong 50% of the time, then you have no idea of what is fact or fiction.

That's the understanding I've always had of such a percentage of fact and fiction.

[Paul Bonham]

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What's the difference between picking 50% fact and 50% fiction?

The choices aren't 50% fact or 50% fiction. They are greater than 50% fact or greater than 50% fiction.

So if you chose greater than 50% fiction (instead of greater than 70% fiction), it means you think somewhere between 51% and 70% of the non-chess content is fictional. At least that's the way I'm interpreting it.

[Ken Craft]

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What is the point of this poll?

[Paul Bonham]

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What is the point of this poll?

"At this very moment, the data are being used by KAOS to raise alarm bells on climate change and force world governments to impose Communism on their citizens!"

"I find that rather hard to believe."

"Would you believe.... at this very moment, the data are being used by former CFC executives to restore 5 and a quarter inch floppy disks from the 1980s and unleash their chess rating program from that time period onto the dubdubdub, where it will sneak into hard drives, wriggle into RAM, hijack video cards, and finally crawl across computer screens as a... as a... as a Carl Bilodeau logical fallacy!"

"No, I'm, afraid not."

"How about.... well.... I think this calls for the Cone of Silence."

"Oh, Max, we don't.... oh, all right, if you insist."

<Cone of Silence gets lowered>

"Ok, Chief, how about.... there's going to be a new reality show, "Survivor Portugal: Dancing with the Bats", in which anyone answering this poll gets flown to the caves of Portugal's west coast to join KS in investigating the effects on cave bats of hearing a Jean Hebert rant, and each week, whoever isn't laughing as hard as the others gets sent home?"

"What does the winner get?"

"A date with some 81-year-old woman in British Columbia."

[Ken Craft]

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I won't comment on the rest but the last line is certainly of highly questionable taste.

[Benoit St-Pierre]

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I can't decide between the third and the fourth choice.

[Zeljko Kitich]

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optimism or pessimism, Jerry.

no I'm following the American policy of containment and I don't have a hazard suit to put on and go through his spewings - that much I know from people talking about his blog on chesstalk

[Jean Hébert]

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I won't comment on the rest but the last line is certainly of highly questionable taste.

In line with the rest. Pathetic efforts to appear witty.

[Paul Bonham]

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In line with the rest. Pathetic efforts to appear witty.

No, I don't care about such things. I collect all the silliness from here and the world at large and combine it into one silly blob. Took me all of five minutes. The question asked was rather silly, so what better spot to do it.

[Peter McKillop]

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... So if you chose greater than 50% fiction (instead of greater than 70% fiction), it means you think somewhere between 51% and 70% of the non-chess content is fictional. At least that's the way I'm interpreting it.

Incorrect interpretation. If the pollster had wanted to convey what you're saying then he should have said: > 50% but = or < 70%.