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You have waited for aeons, but the results of the great sneezing poll are finally here! With a whopping 98 votes cast*, the hk community has banded together to answer the great question: how do vessels sneeze? (*For all responses where multiple options were answered without one being clearly stated as the final choice, all mentioned options were assigned a full vote) Let's take a look at how many votes the original options got:
People really seemed to prefer the most violent option! Vessels can't catch a break, can they? But wait, there's more! The math wizards out there may have noticed the above votes don't add up to 98. And that's because some brave souls stood up for their beliefs and added their own options, let's take a look at those:
These are all great, valid options and I'm glad they weren't left out thanks to the caring gamers in the notes - even option F, which is frankly horrifying!
One person even went out of their way to illustrate their own option themselves, very considerate:
Of course this came at the cost that they (consciously) chose to use the letter "D" for their option, which was kind of already in use. I am no man to play god, so I had to leave this unchanged. Why would you do this to me? Now that we have the votes for all 9 options, it's time for an analysis! This, naturally, means colorful plots:
Wicked! D seems to be clearly winning, but I can't call this a real analysis without any statistics, so I ran 100 runs of 10 000 simulations to estimate the p-values that any of the original 4 options had a higher probability to be voted than by chance (other options excluded as they had the unfair disadvantage only people browsing all the notes could vote for them - I'd have to redo this poll for them to have a real chance). This resulted in D being indeed the only outcome significant under the 5% significance level (with a p-value of ~0.000002). In other words, violence wins! Here's a celebratory sketch of one especially funny vote for the winning option:
It's worth mentioning that this assumes only one answer is correct, which doesn't necessarily have to be the case as one wise scholar pointed out:
Maybe they're all winners, what a nice thought to end on!