Internet Polls

Examples of Internet Polls in the following topics:

• Telephone and Internet Polling

  • Internet and telephone polls are very useful as they are much cheaper than most other polls and are able to reach a wide population.
  • Online polls are becoming an essential research tool for a variety of research fields, including marketing and official statistics research.
  • Web polls are faster, simpler, and cheaper than many other polling methods.
  • An important aspect of telephone polling is the use of interviewers.
  • However, there are some disadvantages to telephone polling.

• Attempts to Improve Voter Turnout

  • If however they are forced to go to the polling place, they can still use a blank or invalid vote.
  • Compulsory voting is a system by which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day.
  • If an eligible voter does not attend a polling place, he or she may be subject to punitive measures, such as fines, community service, or perhaps imprisonment if fines are unpaid or community service is not performed .
  • If however they are forced to go to the polling place, they still can use a blank or invalid vote.
  • Other methods of improving turnout include making voting easier through improved access to polls—for example, through:

• Types of Polls

  • A benchmark poll is generally the first poll taken in a campaign.
  • Brushfire polls are polls taken during the period between the benchmark and tracking polls.
  • An entrance poll is a poll that is taken before voters cast their votes.
  • Like all opinion polls, exit polls by nature do include a margin of error.
  • A straw poll or straw vote is a poll with nonbinding results.

• Additional Factors: Gender, Age, Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

  • New technology, especially the internet, is also making it easier for candidates to reach the youth.
  • Websites such as Facebook and YouTube not only allow students acquire information about the polls, but also allow them to share their excitement over the polls and candidates.
  • Poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation kept black voters from the polls.
  • However, Asian Americans who have been victims of hate crimes or consider themselves to be part of a deprived group find their way to the polls in greater numbers.
  • Much of the Christian right's power within the American political system is attributed to their extraordinary turnout rate at the polls.

• Polls Versus Votes

  • These are really polls rather than votes, but the developers may choose to treat the result as binding.
  • As with any poll, be sure to make it clear to the participants that there's a write-in option: if someone thinks of a better option not offered in the poll questions, her response may turn out to be the most important result of the poll.

• Early Public Opinion Research and Polling

  • The first known example of an opinion poll was an 1824 local straw poll by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian for the Jackson Adams race.
  • The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw poll conducted by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in 1824, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency.
  • The Literary Digest soon went out of business, while polling started to take off.
  • Elmo Roper was another American pioneer in political forecasting using scientific polls.
  • By the 1950s, various types of polling had spread to most democracies.

• The Gallup Organization

  • Gallup Inc. was founded in 1958, when George Gallup grouped all of his polling operations into one organization.
  • Gallup currently has four divisions: Gallup Poll, Gallup Consulting, Gallup University, and Gallup Press.
  • In 1958 the modern Gallup Organization was formed from a merger of several polling organizations.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • For the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Gallup was rated 17th out of 23 polling organizations in terms of the precision of its pre-election polls relative to the final results.

• The Gallup Poll

  • The Gallup Poll is a public opinion poll that conducts surveys in 140 countries around the world.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Poll analyst Nate Silver found that Gallup's results were the least accurate of the 23 major polling firms Silver analyzed, having the highest incorrect average of being 7.2 points away from the final result.
  • This fact has been a major criticism in recent times of the reliability Gallup polling, compared to other polls, in its failure to compensate accurately for the quick adoption of "cell phone only" Americans.
  • Examine the pros and cons of the way in which the Gallup Poll is conducted

• Inference for a single proportion exercises

  • A Gallup poll released the day after this decision indicates that 46% of 1,012 Americans agree with this decision.
  • (a) Verify the margin of error reported by The Marist Poll.
  • "The Chinese Love to Use Feature Phone to Access the Internet".
  • Exercise 6.16 presents the results of a poll where 48% of 331 Americans who decide to not go to college do so because they cannot afford it.
  • (b) If in fact 38% of Americans used their cell phones as a primary access point to the internet, the probability of obtaining a random sample of 2,254 Americans where 17% or less or 59% or more use their only their cell phones to access the internet would be approximately 0.

• A Closer Look at the Gallup Poll

  • The Gallup Poll is an opinion poll that uses probability samples to try to accurately represent the attitudes and beliefs of a population.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup, Inc. that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • The poll has been around since 1935.
  • The Gallup Poll is an opinion poll that uses probability sampling.
  • This provided a much quicker way to poll many people.