[Licom-l] Abstain?

Tue Mar 17 18:01:18 UTC 2009

2009/3/17 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
> For the honor of second post, I have a question.
>
> What is really meant by the abstain voting option and is there perhaps
> a better word?

Essentially, the reason we want to have this option is to ensure that
people don't feel compelled to express an opinion when they truly do
not have one, as we fear that might distort the results in either
direction. I'm fine retitling it to "No opinion / no preference" if
you think that's less confusing :-)
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Erik Möller
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