2007-02-05 22:08:47 · 7 answers · asked by amir 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
A straw poll is an informal opinion survey. The term "straw poll" comes from the American farmland practice of tossing "straws in the wind" to test wind direction. Today, in the age of the Internet, virtual straw polls are common. Online versions of television news stations and newspapers often have daily non-scientific straw polls. Organizations sometimes put a straw poll on their website to give them some idea of the number of members interested in an event. For example, a straw poll asking how many members would be interested in getting together for a meeting at a certain place, would help the organization decide whether the numbers would warrant holding the meeting there.
2007-02-06 06:02:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a straw poll is unstratified, meaning that it is unreliable form of polling because the people running the poll do not take into consideration who the people are that are answering the poll. For example, one certain polls men and women vote differently and so if a question were "Should women have more power?" and only men answered, it would be unstratified and thus a straw poll. There is no real math or method to a straw poll and so it is not scientific, and you can't really tell much from it.
2007-02-05 22:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by cutie pie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they aske a hundred straws for their top 5 answers?
2007-02-05 22:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by ♠ Merlin ♠ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's a good one and I have no idea.
2007-02-06 05:16:13 · answer #4 · answered by angelofgothic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with ixlinhr.
2007-02-06 06:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please let us know if you ever find out the correct answer to his question.
2007-02-08 14:46:44 · answer #6 · answered by Marenight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No idea...
2007-02-05 22:16:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋