Internet Polling
As you, my one reader, may have noticed, a poll of sorts has been going on to the side of this blog. This poll was predicated upon the question, 'if you could go back in time and witness any one event, which would it be?'. The poll was, as is the way with these things, rigged in the sense that I kept voting in it too, for the first presentation of Beethoven's ninth. However, the results are reasonably interesting.
It seems historic mysteries have no currency with readers of my blog who voted. The identity of Jack the Ripper, or who was on the grassy knoll in Dallas when President Kennedy was shot, is of no interest to the maximum security twilight rest home resident voters of this site.
Nor are the birth of China, or the origins of India. Native American views of Columbus, and the end of the Neanderthals, get similarly short shrift. Moses on Sinai, and the end of the dinosaurs--not connected, but imagine what those words will do for blog hits--were slightly less neglected. The Fall of Rome, however, and the crucifixion are clearly cynosures for the time traveller.
Doing internet polls is very interesting. I will, in true European fashion, invent another one and rig it soon, but in the meantime, many thanks for voting. I got the result I wanted, which is all that matters. I intend to learn nothing and to adapt my presentations and views even less than usual, by the way. By the way, do you know anyone who wants to buy a European constitution?....
As you, my one reader, may have noticed, a poll of sorts has been going on to the side of this blog. This poll was predicated upon the question, 'if you could go back in time and witness any one event, which would it be?'. The poll was, as is the way with these things, rigged in the sense that I kept voting in it too, for the first presentation of Beethoven's ninth. However, the results are reasonably interesting.
It seems historic mysteries have no currency with readers of my blog who voted. The identity of Jack the Ripper, or who was on the grassy knoll in Dallas when President Kennedy was shot, is of no interest to the maximum security twilight rest home resident voters of this site.
Nor are the birth of China, or the origins of India. Native American views of Columbus, and the end of the Neanderthals, get similarly short shrift. Moses on Sinai, and the end of the dinosaurs--not connected, but imagine what those words will do for blog hits--were slightly less neglected. The Fall of Rome, however, and the crucifixion are clearly cynosures for the time traveller.
Doing internet polls is very interesting. I will, in true European fashion, invent another one and rig it soon, but in the meantime, many thanks for voting. I got the result I wanted, which is all that matters. I intend to learn nothing and to adapt my presentations and views even less than usual, by the way. By the way, do you know anyone who wants to buy a European constitution?....
Comments