How does this atat thing work?

flobadob | 21:28 Thu 27th May 2010 | How it Works

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I asked a question the other day about biscuits http://www.theanswerb...k/Question898995.html and then half way down the second page a link was put to a poll about the subject http://www.theanswerb...k/Question859080.html showing the results of the answers I assume. How does this work, is someone going through and inputting peoples answers or is it done automatically somehow?

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If you look at the dates of the posts in that survey you'll see that the Editor asked a question similar to yours back in February. ABers were asked to submit their replies in a similar way to this survey:
http://www.theanswerb...s/Question884377.html
The input is automatically collated (and converted to percentages) by AB's computer system. While a survey is still ongoing you can view the current poll figures by clicking on 'View full statistics'. Once a poll is closed the results are transferred to the question box as here
http://www.theanswerb...s/Question884384.html
and the poll is archived. It was such an archived poll that was linked to by one of the contributors in your thread.

Chris