So my first attempt was aborted... this time I think I have it right.

Prince creates such a diverse body of music that each new album that he releases tends to divide his fans into those who love and hate the latest creation. 3121 seems to be no different. Fans will argue vehemently over what is the greatest love song, if he should rock out or funk out, and if his most recent output compares to his 80's work. This poll is meant to illuminate the themes and issues which divide, and unite, the Prince fan community.

http://www.my3q.com/home2...7941.phtml

After two weeks I'll do a statistical analyis on the results and post them here... everyone pls participate!

Done.

Incidently, I hate it when on the drop down country lists the USA is at the top instead of alphabetical, it's just a conspiracy to brainwash people into believing the US is superior to every other country! I also hate it when you install a program and you get the choice of American (English). There's no such thing as American, there's simply the English language. You don't get Scottish (English) for example.

I'll shut up now.

metalorange said:

What's yer point?

squirrelgrease said:

As Morissey says:

America is not the world!

MikeMatronik said:

Actually the answer is quite simple.

a]Americans are too lazy to scroll down. c]Americans are not so good with the alphabet.

ndigo said:

I'm not in America.

You know it's funny, America is allowed to have military bases in the UK (within which UK laws do no apply) but the UK or any other country is not allowed to have military bases in the US - there is some charter or something which won't allow foreign military bases on US soil.

metalorange said:

People this is not the place for this political debate. The person went through all the trouble to create there poll; let them have their fun. If you guys continue to debate politics their thread may get locked. Let's play nice.

metalorange said:

I hate both those things to - When you pick a language and there's the US flag next to English?.... Pah!

metalorange said:

This thread is not about this.....
[Edited 3/8/06 7:54am]

metalorange said:

Maybe it's cuz the highest percentage of users will undoubtedly be from the united states. So instead of making ALL those people scroll ALL the way down...scoot it up at the top.

dONE,LET US KNOW WHAT THE RESULTS ARE

metalorange said:

That's funny, because we have Chinese, Russian, and German troops all over this country. China has a huge port in San Diego and even flies their flag proudly on U.S. soil.

anyway, back to the poll -- it'll be cool to see the results

metalorange said:

it would be best if the top on was the country you were loged on from... the comouter KNOWS were you are.

Interesting poll.

All done.I found it really hard to be so specific about my Prince preferences.

FunkJam said:

you said: POLL

Thanks guys for participating.... I hope more do. I wonder if a moderator would consider sticking this at the top of the forum for the next 2 weeks so that it doesn't get lost.

good poll, except I don't like how u worded the last question.

Done.

doctamario said:

I tried several different ways to ask that question... the one I chose may not be the best but it seemed the least ambiguous.

metalorange said:

Glad to see this kind of thinking isn't limited solely to HQ.

Back ON topic...cool poll.

Rogue588 said:

yep, we Americans think we're the shizznit
just wait until we get our teeth kicked in
our day is coming

back to the topic at hand... i'm looking forward to seeing the correlations between the different choices people picked

Cool stuff.. just submitted mine

Submitted. Unsurprisingly, I seem to fit quite snugly into the consensus on most things. I was surprised when I found the org (years ago) how manylong-time fans have tastes similar to mine. OTOH, it's interesting that the opinions are more divided on the later stuff. Maybe, we settle into common views, after hearing what others think... (I'm sure it has some effect, and yet my opinions about the early albums were set way b4 Internet was even used - hmmm...)

Submitted mine.

Was surprised at some of the results - I musn't be the completely over opinionated git I thought I was !!

metalorange said:

I love the way the poll pretends to be intended for global use, but the education options are American only and the political choices are so blinkered.

Only in America can you have the centre ground being listed as level 1, instead on level 5!

Interesting results though!

Interesting poll!

I'll be curious to see what the results are. I'm guessing this was a bit of work for you. So thanks for doing it. Regardless of the whining on this htread I'll be interested to see what results you "analyze" from this!

SquirrelMeat said:

This is not a political poll so I didn't want to use alot of questions trying to pin down country specific positions. Liberal and Conservative are considered opposite poles in most parts of the world, even if they aren't the same poles in every country. What "liberal" and "conservative" mean, however, isn't important in the analysis. By first controlling for the country one can make statements like "in America, most Orgers identify themselves as [x]", or, in the UK, most Orgers identify themself as [y]". What x and y means is unimportant.

The education levels probably could have been better labelled. The first five or so demographic questions (inlcuding education level) are all from templates that come from the website... a better solution would be "how many years of education have you had?" But most school systems have analogs to the US listed options, so I'm not too worried about it.