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LinkPizza posted...

That's the thing. it's not a good sample size because you don't know how many daily users actually vote. And like others have said, there's probably an actual way to find the number of daily users. Since you don't even know the percentage of users that vote, you random assuming is pointless. You can say for every X numbers of people who vote, there's y number of people who don't. Someone else can say for every X number of people who vote, there's 3X number of people who don't. All you're doing is assuming how many people you think are using the site off of information that doesn't matter. The only thing the poll shows is the minimum number of people who have been to the site that day. The number of users that day will normally be much higher than the number of people who vote in the poll. Unless you can come up with percentages based of of information and not guesswork, than everything you said is pointless. You don't know if 20%, 50%, 90% or people voted in each poll. Without knowing that, using the poll to figure out site usage in pointless...

We know that 5,817 people voting in a poll means a lot less people using the site than if there were 75,000 people voting in a poll. So what can we say about, like, 500 people voting in a poll? Or 50?