online poll
Digital opinion gathering
An online poll is a survey conducted over the internet, typically asking visitors to a website or social media platform to vote on a question.
Unlike scientific surveys with carefully selected samples, online polls are self-selected—anyone who encounters them can participate, which makes their results unreliable as measures of broader public opinion.
An online poll on the newspaper's website showed 73% opposition to the proposal.
- surveySystematic data collection
- voteFormal choice expression
- fan voteAudience-driven selection process
- questionnaireFormal inquiry form
- sample sizeQuantity of observations taken
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- surveyssurvey, surveys, questionnaire, questionnaires, census
- pollingsample, sample size, random sample, margin of error, confidence interval
- self-reportsself-assessment, self-evaluation, self assessment, diary, log