[Building Sakai] "never see results" in Polls tool

[Adam Marshall]

What is the reasoning behind having a setting that prevents anybody (including site maintainers) from seeing the results of a poll? 

I can see the logic of only letting (say) maintain / instructor roles see the results but not preventing everybody from seeing them.

Is it perhaps some part of a great philosophical riddle: "If a vote is cast in a poll and nobody is allowed to see the results, does the poll exist?"?

adam