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Previously on "Are you overly picky?"

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Not to mention them giving us all the work they'd already done on cracking the Enigma machine, which was hugely helpful to the good people of Bletchley Park
    Indeed. As well as the first machines we came by.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    but without their pilots Britain may have fallen.
    Not to mention them giving us all the work they'd already done on cracking the Enigma machine, which was hugely helpful to the good people of Bletchley Park

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    but without their pilots Britain may have fallen.
    you are being overly picky

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    I admire them. I admire what they achieved.
    But in my honest opinion they should not have defended the border and the vulnerable cities. If they had pulled back and defended Warsaw in depth, with a few belts of fortifications, and kept their air force intact in the east (rather than have their airfields overrun)

    they will not have won, but they will have put a serious question mark over Adolph and inflicted some big hits in the process.

    but without their pilots Britain may have fallen.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    Do you like to find fault with perfectly good polls for no reason?
    I admire them. I admire what they achieved.
    But in my honest opinion they should not have defended the border and the vulnerable cities. If they had pulled back and defended Warsaw in depth, with a few belts of fortifications, and kept their air force intact in the east (rather than have their airfields overrun)

    they will not have won, but they will have put a serious question mark over Adolph and inflicted some big hits in the process.



    Last edited by EternalOptimist; 16 August 2013, 18:00.

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    whoosh or bad afternoon?
    Neither.

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by evilagent View Post
    If the polls were perfectly good, there would be no reason to find fault.
    If you find a fault, it's because they fail the "perfectly good" test.

    Every fault generally has a reason attached to it.

    Every perceived fault described usually illustrates the pollsters failure to consider a wider set of possibilities.
    So that's a yes then.

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  • mudskipper
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    I find fault with polls which have no appropriate answer for me, or polls which have ranges which overlap, or polls which have ranges that miss border values, or polls which have an ambiguous question or question that contracdicts the thread title, or polls which fail to provide an adequate, and preferably amusing, AndyW option.

    This poll passes. Just.

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  • evilagent
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    Do you like to find fault with perfectly good polls for no reason?
    If the polls were perfectly good, there would be no reason to find fault.
    If you find a fault, it's because they fail the "perfectly good" test.

    Every fault generally has a reason attached to it.

    Every perceived fault described usually illustrates the pollsters failure to consider a wider set of possibilities.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    The point of a poll is to pick one of the pollsters options. If you want to turn a yes/no question into a 500 word essay then there is a "create new thread" button you can use
    whoosh or bad afternoon?

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    if your poll option miss choices you never thought of then you can be sure you will get a good telling off!
    The point of a poll is to pick one of the pollsters options. If you want to turn a yes/no question into a 500 word essay then there is a "create new thread" button you can use

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  • vetran
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    if your poll option miss choices you never thought of then you can be sure you will get a good telling off!


    Why doesn't your poll have?

    1. I'm just precise its not my fault you are sloppy typical Man/Woman/Chimp delete as appropriate.

    3. This poll is biased against Aardvarks.

    77. Where is I am far richer than Yow option?

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Originally posted by BigRed View Post
    These yes/no polls are a bit limited in choice. Can we have something with a few more options?
    WHS; pickiness is a context dependent attribute.

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  • BigRed
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    These yes/no polls are a bit limited in choice. Can we have something with a few more options?

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  • SimonMac
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    Good AndyW choice

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