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AOL General Public Poll: Presidential Dollar Coins

CJCollectorCJCollector Posts: 33 ✭✭
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I think it is interesting the finding of the AOL poll on the Prez $1 coins from the general public. Perhaps this program will be a winner after all!

What do you think of the new coin designs?
I like them 66%
I don't like them 17%
No opinion 16%
Total Votes: 145,858

Do you plan on collecting the new dollar coins?
Yes 54%
No 38%
Not sure 8%
Total Votes: 133,688

Do you think the new coins will be a success?
No 44%
Yes 39%
Not sure 17%
Total Votes: 147,026

Do you plan on using the new dollar coins?
Yes 50%
No 39%
Not sure 11%
Total Votes: 134,593





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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    Was the poll scientifically conducted (specially in the area of who was selected to take it)? Otherwise, it will be skewed by who bothered to take it. If this is a bunch of coin collector responses it does not matter.
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  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    less than 150,000 polled that isn't even a good sampling of the U.S. population!
  • CJCollectorCJCollector Posts: 33 ✭✭
    The AOL polls are taken online for a few hours a day. They lock out a person from voting again, after you vote. Anyway, here is an update on one of them.


    What do you think of the new coin designs?
    I like them 66%
    I don't like them 17%
    No opinion 16%
    Total Votes: 155,835


    NOTE: Poll results are not scientific and reflect the opinions of only those users who chose to participate. Poll results are not reflected in real time.

    AAJ
    THE MORE YOU COLLECT, THE MORE YOU WANT!
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>less than 150,000 polled that isn't even a good sampling of the U.S. population! >>


    Would you be surprised to know that most of the poll results you hear about on the news, the ones that do claim to be scientificly accurate often only poll 1,500 to 3,000 people? If the sample is properly selected it doesn't have to be large. (of course if it is improperly selected or the question is biased then the sample size can approach 100% and still not be accurate.)
  • DeepCoinDeepCoin Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭
    Get an advanced statistics book and you will find that for a 99 percent confidence level, you need far less than 150K sample size. I cant remember the formula off the top of my head, but I do know that is a statistically significant sample size.
    Retired United States Mint guy, now working on an Everyman Type Set.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Polling has become a science. I have taken some instruction in this field. The wording of the question is incredibly critical.... it being very simple to affect a responders bias. I consider most polling the equivalent of barn sweepings... since the market selected, time the poll is taken, subject wording, poll takers oral inflections (if a verbal contact poll), current event news coverage and time of year all have contributory effects on the tabulated results. Cheers, RickO
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    150,000 is actually a pretty large sample size.
    when they do polls on the news its usually less than 1000 people.

    oops. I see someone has mentioned this. anyhoo!
  • DeepCoinDeepCoin Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭
    Ricko, you are right on the point. It has been a while since my PhD statistics courses, but I do know that not only how you word a question, but also how you present the answer affects the outcome. Questionaire design is not a simple matter. For example, the forum polls by having a default selected in the radio button will skew the results. Anyway, stats are always fun to play with.
    Retired United States Mint guy, now working on an Everyman Type Set.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BFD. What were the poll numbers like when the Sac $s were first released?
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The public's been primed for the dollars with the quarter series. I think it will bring a whole new crowd into the coin collecting fold. And being dollar denomination, probably better heeled folks.

    A .... COMPLETE..... "collection" of .....DOLLARS will now be an economically "doable" thing.

    Hmmm... these are ok but I wonder what one of them OLD dollars would cost?...hmmm
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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    The designs are not promising so far. Why is it that American coins have to have presidential portraits? Can't we move away from that?
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    sumnom.... because the AVERAGE American wouldn't understand something like .... LIBERTY.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree Sumnom.... long overdue ..... there are many possibilities, and they do not include politicians.... of any standing. Cheers, RickO
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    You can vote as many times as you want in an AOL opinion poll - just delete the AOl cookies.
  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭
    I'm just going to collect those who didn't lie.
  • BigTomBigTom Posts: 305 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm just going to collect those who didn't lie. >>



    That's what I call a short set.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I'm just going to collect those who didn't lie. >>



    That's what I call a short set. >>


    Mathematically, it would be called a degenerate collection.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    My prediction, and I'm willing to lay my last dollar on it, is that there's no way this program will be successful in getting the general populace of the US to spend dollar coins in regular commerce...UNLESS...they get rid of the $1 bill. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
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  • 53BKid53BKid Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Quite possibly true Chuck! The 1st year success of the program may be dictated by hoarding of what some may tout as a collectible guaranteed to go up in value! You probably will not see a whole lot of these things during the first year unless the paper buck goes bye-bye. Ask yourself, when was the last time you saw a bunch of Sac's in a cash drawer?

    Collecting them is one thing, spending them in day to day transactions is something completely different.
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  • morganbarbermorganbarber Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭
    I don't have a problem with the designs, but I am very sorry that they are continuing that horrid "golden" alloy. I have a Sackie someone gave me in PCGS 66 that turned in the holder and looks like doo-doo.
    I collect circulated U.S. silver
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,893 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't have a problem with the designs, but I am very sorry that they are continuing that horrid "golden" alloy. I have a Sackie someone gave me in PCGS 66 that turned in the holder and looks like doo-doo. >>



    I agree. That magnesium brass alloy that they are using is one of the most reactive metals that I have ever seen.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,748 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My prediction, and I'm willing to lay my last dollar on it, is that there's no way this program will be successful in getting the general populace of the US to spend dollar coins in regular commerce...UNLESS...they get rid of the $1 bill. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. >>



    I don't disagree, but I think they'll have a lot more resistance to introducing the
    dollar coin if the cent is still circulating. Many merchants will claim that they don't
    have a space in the cash register for the dollar coin.

    Apparently the government is hoping that metals prices drop so it relieves them
    of the necessity of doing anything. And maybe we can all just turn the clocks back
    to about 1964.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My prediction, and I'm willing to lay my last dollar on it, is that there's no way this program will be successful in getting the general populace of the US to spend dollar coins in regular commerce...UNLESS...they get rid of the $1 bill. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. >>


    But the common sense required to figure it out is removed during administration of the Congressional Lobotomy.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
  • CJCollectorCJCollector Posts: 33 ✭✭
    Well, here is the final update on this AOL online Poll. Not too much different from the one I posted to start this thead.

    AAJ

    What do you think of the new coin designs?
    I like them 66%
    I don't like them 17%
    No opinion 16%
    Total Votes: 159,522

    Do you think the new coins will be a success?
    No 44%
    Yes 39%
    Not sure 17%
    Total Votes: 160,798

    Do you plan on collecting the new dollar coins?
    Yes 54%
    No 38%
    Not sure 8%
    Total Votes: 146,319

    Do you plan on using the new dollar coins?
    Yes 50%
    No 39%
    Not sure 12%
    Total Votes: 147,343
    THE MORE YOU COLLECT, THE MORE YOU WANT!
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am sorry but the POLL is way out in left field. It's on AOL most people with a brain are not using AOL.

    Sorry but I had to RANT!!!!
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