National Poll: Which couldn't you live without? TV Remote or Dishwasher?

TV Remote: 62.6%
Dishwasher: 37.4%
Male: 65.0% 35.0%
Female: 56.5% 43.5%
Prediction Accuracy: 73.1%

Boy did I get this one wrong...

A small breakthrough.

In browsing the internet, hoping to find some of the results that I had lost from not starting this earlier, I came across this website:

http://shanem.net/misc/everyoneVotes.html

They have an interesting setup to the site (read: no pictures) and it looks like it hasn't been added to in a long time. I won't bother posting them up here, only because I would rather have you visit the link to their site since they put up the effort. However, I might at least archive those results, just in case the site goes down (after which I would probably post what they have here). I might take the idea of posting actual text results in addition to the pictures I have been posting. It will make searching the page a little better.

Clarification of my processes.

Now that I've got all of the archived polls, let me do some explaining. First, I'm not rich, so this isn't high tech. My TV is a Tube TV with no component inputs. The colors are a little jacked (trust me I've tried to fix it) and the refresh rate is obvious in some of the pictures I take. My computer doesn't have any way to receive RCA inputs, so you get photos of my TV screen. I know about all of the ways to make something like this look and feel more professional, but I lack the resources (read: money) to do so. I hope this doesn't disappoint you. If it does, then I guess our time together will be short (though, admittedly, I didn't expect it to be very long anyway).

Next, my posting procedures should look uniform by now. What I'm really hoping to get out of you, the reader, is that you'll take an active part in this and become you, the poster. By posting, I really mean commenting. It isn't fun to get statistics without a little discussion to go on. Isn't that what the internet is for nowadays, social networks and whatnot? I'll freely admit that Nintendo picks some really weird topics, but some of them are actually worth discussing. I hope you take the opportunity to do so.

Additionally, I hope to keep a better tab on when these results come through and post them shortly thereafter. I will admit that since no one is really visiting this blog as of yet, my motivation is a little lacking. But if things do pick up, I'll get the results up as quickly as I can. Also, use the "Labels"/Tags that Blogger gives to help sorting topics of interest to you. New polls are usually up about every 2-3 days, so check back often for new results!

Worldwide Poll: Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Right-handed: 85.8%
Left-handed: 14.2%
Men: 84.7% 15.3%
Women: 88.0% 12.0%
Prediction Accuracy: 93.9%

The breakdown for the countries will come as soon as I get some time to do a little Photoshop magic. It's a little tougher than the normal breakdown by region screen since it has a lot of countries involved.

This poll holds the "Best Predicted" title as of 1/16/08.

National Poll: Which would you rather have more of? Intelligence or Confidence?

Intelligence: 57.0%
Confidence: 43.0%
Men: 57.1% 42.9%
Women: 56.9% 43.1%
Prediction Accuracy: 58.1%

National Poll: Where do you prefer to watch movies? Theatre or Home?

Theatre: 54.7%
Home: 45.3%
Men: 57.3% 42.7%
Women: 48.4% 51.6%
Prediction Accuracy: 68.6%

National Poll: Which plays a greater part in your decisions at a grocery store? Organic Label or Good Price?

Organic label: 17.9%
Good price: 82.1%
Men: 16.9% 83.1%
Women: 20.1% 79.9%
Prediction Accuracy: 86.6%

National Poll: Which bothers you more? Ignorance or Indifference?

Ignorance: 73.7%
Indifference: 26.3%
Men: 75.3% 24.7%
Women: 69.7% 30.3%
Prediction Accuracy: 75.1%

From Dictionary.com:
ig·no·rance /ˈɪgnərəns/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ig-ner-uhns]
–noun
the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.

in·dif·fer·ence /ɪnˈdɪfərəns, -ˈdɪfrəns/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-dif-er-uhns, -dif-ruhns]
–noun

1.	lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.

2.	unimportance; little or no concern: Whether or not to attend the party is a matter of indifference to him.

3.	the quality or condition of being indifferent.

4.	mediocre quality; mediocrity.

I would be lying if I didn't say that I was really surprised at this poll. Don't people realize that ignorance cannot be helped, but indifference is caused by, oh I don't know, a "lack of interest or concern"? We are so quick to say that it isn't our fault if we didn't know, yet never willing to forgive that in others. However, when we have the knowledge and do nothing about it, we say that that is less bothersome. 73% of people really do surprise me.

National Poll: Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

Introvert: 64.2%
Extrovert: 35.8%
Men: 55.3% 44.7%
Women: 51.6% 48.4%
Prediction Accuracy: 43.3%

National Poll: How do you prefer to travel while on vacation? By Airplane or By Car?

By airplane: 61.0%
By car: 39.0%
Men: 61.1% 38.9%
Women: 60.7% 39.3%
Prediction Accuracy: 72.6%

National Poll: Would you erase part of your past if you could?

Yes: 60.9%
No: 39.1%
Men: 62.1% 37.9%
Women: 57.7% 42.3%
Prediction Accuracy: 75.2%

National Poll: Which is the luckier number? 7 or 21?

7 (Seven): 75.3%
21 (Twenty-One): 24.7%
Men: 75.8% 24.2%
Women: 74.1% 25.9%
Prediction Accuracy: 82.4%

National Poll: Do you sometimes talk aloud to yourself?

Yes: 79.6%
No: 20.4%
Men: 78.2% 21.8%
Women: 83.3% 16.7%
Prediction Accuracy: 76.6%

National Poll: You're given an opportunity to live on another planet but can't return to Earth. Do you go?

Yes: 29.0%
No: 71.0%
Men: 32.0% 68.0%
Women: 21.1% 78.9%
Prediction Accuracy: 71.5%

National Poll: Are you afraid of speaking in front of groups?

Yes: 48.0%
No: 52.0%
Men: 45.6% 54.4%
Women: 54.1% 45.9%
Prediction Accuracy: 23.8%

This poll holds the "Most One-Sided" title as of 1/16/08.

National Poll: Which is more likely to grant your wish? Coin in a Fountain or Birthday Candle Wish?

Coin in a fountain: 33.7%
Birthday candle wish: 66.3%
Men: 33.3% 66.7%
Women: 34.7% 65.3%
Prediction Accuracy: 71.3%

National Poll: When making decisions, are you... Impulsive or Careful?

Impulsive: 33.1%
Careful: 66.9%
Men: 33.5% 66.5%
Women: 32.0% 68.0%
Prediction Accuracy: 61.6%

National Poll: Is it Called Pop or Soda?

Pop: 24.9%
Soda: 75.1%
Men: 24.3% 75.7%
Women: 26.6% 73.4%
Prediction Accuracy: 76.5%

This was a poll that I was always hoping would come up. I had even submitted it to Nintendo. What I find most interesting is how this justifies the evolution of my own language. I grew up calling it "pop" but now (especially after having moved to an area that is heavily influenced by the Spanish language) I call it "soda". This is reflected in the National Results by Region.

Mission Statement

Doesn't every blog start with a mission statement of some sort? That's the way I've always seen it. Well, I'm not going to take over the world or anything. I don't even expect to get a lot of hits on this blog. Perhaps that's the reason why I took so long in putting this together. Honestly, the only reason I started this was so I could keep track of things myself. I actually am kicking myself for not starting sooner since all of the old data is now lost. What a shame...

Oh yeah, I suppose you don't even know what this is for, do you? Well, I hope this will change in the upcoming days. For those of you who are familiar with the Nintendo Wii and its channels, you probably already know what this is from the title of the blog. For those of you who are unawares, let me give you a brief history. A long while ago (something like 5 or 6 months ago), Nintendo released a little voting game for their Wii console. It's a free download, so it reaches quite a large audience (at the time of this posting, VGChartz shows the Wii as having sold roughly 11.9 million consoles).

Here's the premise of the channel itself. Every few days, Nintendo releases a new question. Anything from "Is it called Soda or Pop?" to "Is the TV you are watching now a widescreen TV?" You only have two options to vote from and afterwards you can make a prediction as to what choice would be most popular. Nintendo tallies the votes and also tracks your prediction success and makes little assumptions about your character based on how you vote. Pretty basic stuff.

Nintendo gives you a small incentive to keep voting every time with a kind of personal voting stat tracker.

This is interesting to me, as little psychological things always are. The prediction part is obviously the most interesting. When I find that I made a wrong prediction, I'm always somewhat shocked to find that people don't think the way I think they should think. Not that that should be all too surprising. And yet sometimes it is.

I figured a long time ago that others might benefit from this knowledge, especially since there's sure to be a large number of people voting, especially in the worldwide polls though Nintendo never releases actual numbers on the amount of voters. If only half of the Wii owners have downloaded the Everybody Votes channel (roughly 6M people) and only half of those vote regularly (3M people), then that is quite the information gathering power. If anything, it is interesting to note the results and I will enjoy going back over them at a future date. I just hope that you will, too!

So, I've meant to do this for a long time and have now paid the price for it. Roughly 5 months worth of gathered data (which equates to roughly 80 lost questions at 4 questions a week, 3 National and 1 Worldwide) has been lost since Nintendo doesn't keep a record anywhere that I've found. No one else has bothered to set up some sort of tracking system for it, so now I'll be the one to bother. My only wish was that I could set up a system to get the questions that go to other nations. I have no idea what Europe gets for their national questions, but I'm sure it has got to be different than us folks in the USA. Same for much of Latin America, Australia, etc. Maybe if this happens to get some clout/hits, I can expand. For now, you're stuck with me in the North American region, specifically the United States. I hope you enjoy it!