Poll

Why are polls useful?

• Polls provide the public with information that is useful during elections

• Polls provide candidates and campaigns relevant information about their performance

• Polls provide information to policy-makers about important public policy issues

• All the above

What kind of bias is produced in polls when people refuse to participate in polling calls?

• Apathetic bias

• Alienated bias

• Nonresponsive bias

• Response bias

What is the purpose of polling?

• To predict political behavior by sampling public attitudes

• To help politicians in campaigns by identifying political trends

• To provide the public with information

• All the above

What is the viewed as an acceptable margin-of-error in political polling?

• (+/-) 3-4%

• (+/-) 4-5%

• (+/-) 2-3%

• (+/-) 2-6%

Identify the correct type of poll to each definition. Exit Poll

• an informal and unofficial election poll conducted with a non-random population

• politically biased campaign information presented as a poll in order to change minds

• a public opinion poll that measures a public’s positive feelings about a candidate or politician

• an election poll taken by interviewing voters as they leave a polling place

Which poll is not scientific?

• Straw polls

• Focus groups

• Push-polls

• All the above

What is public opinion?

• What people feel about issues

• What people believe about public policies

• The attitudes people express on political issues

• What the public thinks about any subject or topic

What are straw polls?

• Sample populations that are not demographically stratified

• Sample populations that are not randomly selected

• Sample populations that do not represent the general population

• All the above

What is a poll in the context of social studies?

• A method to gather public opinion

• A type of election

• A form of government

• A political party

Which of the following is a characteristic of a scientific poll?

• Random sampling

• Biased questions

• Limited sample size

• Non-anonymous responses