Polls!

I recently found a site where you can set up polls or view results of other polls. The place is called Vizu. I think its really cool that these polls can be made and gathered in one place for people to fill out or just look at for the fun of it, which is what I have been doing. The major strength of this website is the ability it gives to the average person to set up and look at these polls. They can be on whatever you want. The most popular poll at this moment is about Artificial Intelligence, and what people think about it. The majority of people say they aren't afraid of what AI itself will do, but what humans will do with it. The amazing part is that about 6500 people have voted in this poll. Obviously this isn't a huge number when you consider the number of people that use the internet, but it is still a big number, especially for a poll. Thats kind f a funny poll, but there do exist polls on more serious topics. Who do you want to be the next President? The majority of people according to this poll want McCain to be the next President. Things like that poll have a few flaws, which highlight the flaws of the site in general.

The first flaw is that the majority of polls people take the time to respond to are not on what I would consider interesting or important subjects. Most of them are entertainment or sports related, making it hard to find popular polls that are related to something serious. The second flaw I found when considering writing about this site was the reliability. The results are not tamper proof. I found a poll that had been sabotauged, a program written to vote for one particular result hundreds of times per hour.

Overall this site is not fantastic, but the concept is great. There are a few rare jewels within the poll results, but overall I found many of the polls to be of little concern to myself. It is worth taking a look at and poking around, though.