Trying to work out poll anonymizing

[conuly]

Can you just click a number in the poll? Just pick the number that indicates how many people have already voted. You don't have to tell me you voted or who you are, I just want to see if there's any rhyme or reason at all to how the numbers sort after the fact.

Poll #21816

This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 108

How many participants did this poll have BEFORE you voted? Only answer this one if the number is under 20

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Mean: 9.67 Median: 10 Std. Dev 5.75

0		1 (4.8%)
1		1 (4.8%)
2		1 (4.8%)
3		1 (4.8%)
4		1 (4.8%)
5		1 (4.8%)
6		1 (4.8%)
7		1 (4.8%)
8		1 (4.8%)
9		1 (4.8%)
10		2 (9.5%)
11		1 (4.8%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		1 (4.8%)
14		2 (9.5%)
15		1 (4.8%)
16		1 (4.8%)
17		0 (0.0%)
18		2 (9.5%)
19		1 (4.8%)
20		0 (0.0%)

Okay, same deal, but this time it is between 21 and 41....

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Mean: 31.30 Median: 31 Std. Dev 6.14

21		1 (5.0%)
22		1 (5.0%)
23		1 (5.0%)
24		1 (5.0%)
25		0 (0.0%)
26		1 (5.0%)
27		1 (5.0%)
28		2 (10.0%)
29		0 (0.0%)
30		1 (5.0%)
31		2 (10.0%)
32		0 (0.0%)
33		1 (5.0%)
34		0 (0.0%)
35		2 (10.0%)
36		0 (0.0%)
37		2 (10.0%)
38		1 (5.0%)
39		1 (5.0%)
40		1 (5.0%)
41		1 (5.0%)

For everybody else, there is a ticky box

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TICKY
77 (100.0%)

Comments

[marahmarie]

Pollution: some of the "for everyone else" User #s are showing up under previous questions (unless the poll is literally inventing new numbers for them, at least for that question).

As far as inventing new numbers for the previous poll questions (the ones before TICKY) the first two comments seemed to show a shift-by-one trend, then it just aaaalll went off the rails, to my eye. Torn if that's an algorithm or an error, as someone suggested.

[conuly]

I think it IS inventing new numbers.