What is a straw poll?

Straw survey is an informal survey of opinions. It is assumed that this term comes from American agricultural practice in 1800s, which throws straw in the wind to test its direction. In the 1920s, some American newspapers included informal public opinion surveys as a way of testing the direction of political "wind". But instead won a large majority. The problem of the magazine was that their list of e -mails they used for their vote consisted only of names from registers of motor vehicles and telephone books. The names on this list were not covered by many Americans of that time who were too poor to have a car or phone. Supervision caused the digest Venbrzy afterwards.

It is interesting that George Gallup's advertising researcher has been able to accurately predict Roosevelt's huge victory. Created great credibility for his society, the American institute of public opinion, and also precisely predicted that the digest poll will be wrong and causeFall of magazine. The kisses, with her survey Gallup, later became the name of the household.

In the age of the Internet are common virtual surveys of straw. Online versions of television news stations and newspapers often have everyday unscientific surveys on various topics. The organization sometimes gave one idea of ​​their website about the number of members interested in the event. For example, a survey asking how many members would be interested in meeting at a meeting in a certain place would help the organization decide whether the numbers would guarantee that it was holding me there.