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I'd be interested to see a graph of the number of hits by day. She should certainly have put a time limit on it. Anyway, the time it took this to get the number of responses needed is interesting - now that we're finally seeing it, our clicks are superfluous. Tracking the exponential increase might have revealed some cool algorithm related to six degrees of separation and all that.
Dammit. I had the same argument with my girlfriend about my three-volume treatise on the phenomenology of OS/2 and it didn't work out the same way at all.
I blogged once about something similar (just a poll to get a girl at one college to go out with a guy at another college), where the guy totally faked the numbers (like the population of his college * 1.5 voting yes) and didn't expect anybody to take it seriously.