dw_suggestions | Anonymized Detailed Results as a poll option

Title:
Anonymized Detailed Results as a poll option

Area:
polls

Summary:
Survey owner and/or others should be able to choose to see detailed survey results with arbitrary anonymous record numbers attached to answers in place of usernames, for anonymous polling of registered users/OpenID users.

Description:
Somewhat similar to the request brought up in http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/59169.html, this is another kind of anonymous poll.

The anonymous poll as presented in that suggestion would make the detailed results of the poll unavailable to the owner, which is fine as far as anonymity goes, but does not satisfy for detailed poll results, or connecting a response on question 1 to a response on question 2 without also absolutely revealing the poll respondent's identity.

Identity can occasionally be guessed at (at multiple levels of precision depending on the respondent, the answers, and the guesser) from viewing detailed results to a multiple-answer poll, when a combination of points that are not by themselves identifiable are connected by someone who knows the likely poll respondents, so this method does not guarantee complete anonymity from the poll-taker and any observers.

One could make this happen by displaying an arbitrary, unique, and above all, non-identifiable number in place of the username for each poll respondent. (There goes the brilliant idea to just use their user number.) Actually crunching the data thus gathered would be left as an exercise for the student.

Poll #2180 Anonymized Detailed Results as a poll option

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

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Should be implemented as-is.
14 (50.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (3.6%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (46.4%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)