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73 polls conducted & 3770 votes counted

Highest vote count: 75 for No (Poll: Polarizing Provisions, Question: Is cereal a soup?)

Most decisive vote ever: Ice Cream over Frozen Yogurt, 65–11 (Poll: Dessert Match-Ups Part I, Question: Frozen; p = 1.8^{-10})

Most unanimous vote: Ice Cream with a resounding 85.53 % of the votes (Poll: Dessert Match-Ups Part I, Question: Frozen)

Lowest vote count: 3 for Seasonal Beer (Poll: Holiday Drinks, Question: holiday drinks)

Least unanimous vote: Seasonal Beer with 7.89 % of the votes (Poll: Holiday Drinks, Question: holiday drinks)

Closest vote(s) ever: a 3-way tie for closest — see the tie tracker for the full list.

Tie tracker

3 questions have ended in a dead-even split so far:

Poll Question Split
Cheese Snacks cheese snacks 21-21 (Goldfish vs Cheez-It)
Eggs In a pot 13-13 (Poached vs Hard/Soft Boiled)
Dessert Match-Ups Part II Cinnamon 23-23 (Churro vs Cinnamon Bun)

Cumulative correlation between HQ’s and RTP’s vote shares, across every option RTP has voted on since it joined the poll at Earth Day.

0.84 cumulative Alignment Index (Earth Day → Polarizing Provisions)

Figure 1: Leader-only HQ/RTP correlation, one poll at a time.

Most aligned poll: Earth Day (0.9)

Least aligned poll: Sun Protection (0.43)

9 questions where HQ and RTP would have crowned different winners on their own, since RTP joined the poll.

Biggest HQ/RTP gap on record: Sunscreen (Sun Protection) — HQ 86% vs RTP 63.3% for Lotion (p = 0.038). It’s also the only office gap that’s cleared statistical significance so far.

RTP participation

RTP has cast 1007 of the 2523 votes counted since it joined — 39.9% of the total. That share hasn’t trended up or down so much as bounced around a fairly consistent range, poll to poll:

Figure 2: RTP’s share of the vote, one poll at a time.

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