An Ultimate Guide To Online Poll

Before creating a poll, you must know the different types of polls for efficiency and better results. There are basically nine types of polls. Let’s have a look at these types.

1. Benchmark Poll
2. Tracking Poll
3. Brushfire Poll
4. Tracking Poll
5. Straw Poll
6. Entrance Poll
7. Exit Poll
8. Opinion Poll
9. Deliberative Opinion Poll

Now, let us learn about them in specific.

1. Benchmark Poll

A benchmark poll is often the first survey conducted during a political campaign. It is sometimes taken before a nominee declares his or her candidacy for office, although it can also occur shortly after the announcement. This poll is often a quick and straightforward survey of potential voters.

2. Tracking Poll

A tracking poll taken at regular intervals with either the same set of questions or new questions averaged over a trailing time. If a tracking poll is done on a weekly basis, the data from the prior poll is utilized for each new poll after discarding the older data.

3. Brushfire Poll

Brushfire polls are those taken between the benchmark and tracking polls. The frequency of brushfire polls taken by a propaganda campaign is influenced by the competitiveness of the race and the amount of money available to the campaign. These surveys often target likely voters, and the duration of the survey is determined by the number of statements being tested.

4. Tracking Poll

A tracking poll is one that is repeated at regular intervals and averaged across a trailing timeframe. A periodic tracking poll only considers data from the previous week and discards earlier data. You can use poll software to schedule surveys. 

5. Straw Poll

A straw poll, sometimes known as a straw vote, is a poll with vaguely worded results. Straw polls facilitate communication among movements within huge groupings. 

Impromptu straw polls are frequently held in meetings according to rules in order to check if there is enough support for a proposal to devote more scheduled meetings to it and for participants to see who is on either side of a topic.

6. Entrance Poll

An entrance poll is a poll taken before voters cast their ballots. Typically, an entrance survey is conducted to ascertain voter attitudes toward voting and other related electoral problems. Because there is less chance of respondents shifting from their original view, the margin of error in an entrance survey is much lower than in an opinion poll.

7. Exit Poll

An exit poll, as opposed to an entrance poll, is immediately taken after the voter leaves the voting location. These polls are conducted in order to predict the winning candidate before the ballots are tabulated and the results are announced. 

However, exit polls have a higher margin of error since individuals are hesitant to disclose true information, and therefore more people may deceive pollsters by providing incorrect information.

8. Opinion Poll

This refers to the survey of public sentiment based on a specific sample. Opinion polls are often meant to depict the opinions of the public by asking a series of questions and then assuming broad generalizations from ratio or confidence interval responses.

9. Deliberative Opinion Poll

A deliberative opinion poll is a type of poll in which public opinion research is employed in a novel and productive way. The deliberative opinion survey results in an assumption of public opinion if they had the opportunity to collect additional knowledge and information about the problem.

Now that, you have learned the different types of polls. Let us explain why to conduct polls.