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well, yeah, but I would say "more" not most. most to me is a bigger difference.


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Technically, you need at least three options to have responses to one of them be "most." And then it doesn't even have to be a majority.

Since no one can be said to have chosen the third option of your false dilemma we don't really know, do we?

Well, maybe I did.

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Technically, you need at least three options to have responses to one of them be "most." And then it doesn't even have to be a majority.





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Most members didn't vote.

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heh.


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Many of the members who only read some of the posts probably didn't even see this poll to vote on it.

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I'd say you're mostly right, Sparteye.

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I'd say you're mostly right, Sparteye.




More or less.

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Was that non-majority a singularity or a plurality?

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