UncleEbenezer wrote:Point of order: a "neither" certainly doesn't imply "in the middle". ...
As it happens, I'm a self-selecting Neither, I've lived in areas counted as both north and south of England, but never the Midlands!
It's "average" middle, innit?
Oh, and wearing my killjoy statistician hat, you're not going to get any meaningful conclusions out of a self-selecting sample like this. Intuitively (and plausibly) it appears that more people like straight glasses than jugs, but even that has no statistical basis.
Well, that makes polls such as this rather pointless.
The results are 100% accurate in that they show the declared preferences of all Lemons who decided to vote. How closely that relates to the population as a whole is a different matter. Lemons, especially those who read the "Drink" forum, are an elite subset of the country's population and their preferences may not be representative of that population.
I would not expect anyone's decision of whether or not to vote to be based upon his or her glass preference although I accept that this is possible, for example, those who prefer jugs may have stronger views and, as such, be more likely to vote. It could be argued that such a bias would better reflect the overall preference and would be more consistent with the results of a questionnaire where one may indicate a strength of opinion ("strongly agree, agree, partly agree, undecided, etc.).
Julian F. G. W.