Sorry to ruin your faith, but the poll is next to worhless.
There are no options for being confused, there are only options for getting messed up, which is another matter entirelly.
A good button layout is logical and is fast in terms of connotatios made by the brain.
I would suggest you didnt know this if you hadnt looked at the research or knowledge in empirical testing. Of which we know nothing by looking at numbers and graphs.
Similarly, you dont know something is confusing untill someone tell you how, one might forget that both colours and letters are arbritrary.
Also, a 4 cluster was never made with a 4 cluster in mind, it draws on the logic of something else. The accident that happened, is far from perfect.
One might also forget (when voting) that the implementation of this has been done in exclusivly different versions to each other.
Someone changing their vote isnt indifferent to the result, nor is the time it occurs. Did you read my post or not, for example. I think anything less is inherrently confusing.
I cant for the life of me understand how anyone cant be atleast on some level confused as to why there are so many different layouts of the same broken design.
As you get into the _that they are different, rather than how, which is also mind-boggling. You being to question the sentence which has "I don't see any potential for confusion"
How you ask the questions isnt unimportant.
There is no option for 100% wrong, which leads those people to not have something to vote for, and may opt out of voting. The only solid answer here is the ones that do get confused.
The ones who dont are more likely to be false positives by how the question is asked.
Indoctrination also plays an effect, mostly seasoned users hang out at the forum, and there is a technical bar to overcome to do so, not an even voting poll to sample.
being used to the pandora, i wouldnt say im confused, unless i really thought about it. And when I do, for the case of argument, the labels could be anything, and i still would probably be likely to not be confused after a while.
When it comes down to it, I cant think of anything much more confusing than random ABXY, in itself, with respect to what the pandora is, and in the knowledge of what the others are.
I think asking what kind of mental mapping do you prefer, latin characters, symbols, colours, is a better vote, but the vote would be so great it goes back to the reasoning that you cant ask something less than the whole picture.
If you have to ask the question, you dont know what the final picture looks like, and a poll doesnt help matters in deciding it. Merely having to ask is a warning sign to something being wrong if you ask me.
What is a good design, how could it be better, is a discussion. A vote is swayed by things such as nostalgia or agreeing majority more than anything, thats what i would be worried about in terms of getting solid answers.
Also i think looking at the majority here is all but right in the context of getting something out of the answer. A huge percentage opting for getting messed up, is _not_ good.
