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Philip Newton ([personal profile] pne) wrote2004-07-11 03:09 pm

[identity profile] elgrande.livejournal.com 2004-07-11 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
Tickybox? What's that?
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Tickybox

[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2004-07-11 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
A checkbox, since the "check" mark is called a "tick" in some places. Hence the community name [livejournal.com profile] tickybox, where some people (predominantly a group of English people who know one another, it seems to me) post links to polls occasionally.

Seen from some polls, to have a little "tickybox" at the end to give people something to tick :) Especially when most other questions are text entries.

Can also be useful as a rough gauge of how many people have taken the poll, since many people like to tick the tickybox.

[identity profile] cadenzamuse.livejournal.com 2004-07-11 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm guessing we're going for evidence of a bell curve here?
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bell curve

[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2004-07-11 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
Would be interesting if it turned out like that, yes.

[identity profile] sovereigna.livejournal.com 2004-07-12 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
I nearly didn't tick it!
But then did, at the last minute.


PS this was a really mean poll to see first thing when I got to work this morning! (monday mornings!)