When are you more likely to vote in a WP forum poll?

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Do you think you are more likely to vote in a poll if you think the apparent premise the poster presents is invalid?

Yes, the last option is a blatantly obvious joke.

I am seriously looking for responses though.

I voted for "I don't vote in forum polls" in this forum poll. Just because I can.

But, seriously, I vote in polls if I feel strongly either way. If it's something I don't care about either way, I usually won't bother opening the thread at all.

Seriously, I think this is an exercise in futility. Who on earth would admit (even to themselves) they're more likely to vote when they don't agree with what a person has to say?

A more prescient question, MrXes, would be: "Do you prefer to vote in a poll that has an inherent bias, or one that is phrased neutrally?"

Sometimes I feel like a lot of the threads here begin with "leading" questions. For instance, I feel like you would get very different responses to a thread that said "how do you walk?" compared to a thread that says "does everyone shuffle when they walk?" By asking shuffling first, it's going to make a lot of people recall times that they shuffled, and say "Yes, sometimes I do shuffle. Huh. Just like everyone else!" Instead of people thinking "hmm...how do I walk? Do I skip? Do I shimmy? Hmmmm....."

I voted "I never have thought about it".

I'm slightly more likely to vote, because I'm slightly more likely to have opened the thread in the first place to see why people are claiming that.

I'm however, less likely to vote because they more often don't have any option that fits my view point.

So, I don't know whether its net more likely, less likely, or about equivalent.

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I've never really thought about it. I just vote for the options that I agree with and leave it at that.

Validity of a poll's premise is part of my consideration in whether or not to 'vote', though it isn't the primary 'component'. I don't actually care to make 'votes' and especially have trouble with answering 'what's-your-favorite...' questions. One of the primary 'things' that helps me decide to respond or not is whether I 'know' the OP...if I've seen them a few times before, maybe have an idea or two about how they talk/where they're coming from (and, maybe, where they're going to ), and if I think there's a good enough chance/possibility of my being understood within the thread. Like you, Mr. Xxx. I've read your posts for awhile before today and think I have (almost) enough understanding of YOU to at least guess at your thought patterns and see how I might 'adapt' my posting for your understanding. ...Course, I could still get it wrong. Ha!

I vote in most polls I see that don't exclude me by being explicitly directed at people with ASDs only, or that are about aspects of ASD that i simply have no personal experience of (e.g. stimming). I tend not to vote in polls that have the word suicide in it.