Regular readers know that I don’t like online opinion polls because they tend to suck. But just because you can’t put any stock in the results of a poll generated through self-selected voting, doesn’t mean I won’t click on one every now and then … or that I won’t find the occasional data point worth mentioning.
Take, for example, this survey at Macworld (U.K.) that that asks: “What sort of in-car iPod solution do you have?” Readers are offered options that include: tape deck adaptor; FM transmitter; it’s built into my stereo; the car included an iPod dock; I don’t listen to my iPod in the car; and the baffling, I would like listen to my iPod in the car, but don’t.
Then there was this option: “I don’t have an iPod.”
Finally, they’re talking to me. So I figure, what the heck, I might as well register a click for “I don’t have an iPod” just to make sure that the category gets at least one vote. I mean remember what happened to pool ol’ Steve Ballmer?
I cast my vote and then stare at the results in what can only be called utter disbelief: Not only was mine not the only admission of living life sans iPod, the option was actually by far the most common with a whopping 69.4 percent of the 11,510 votes registered.
I am not alone. You are not alone. We’ve got seven of every 10 persons who read Macworld (U.K.) and are willing to click a button standing proudly shoulder-to-shoulder in our iPod-barren existences.
Don’t know about you, but this brightens my day.
