Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is lesson 274.
The title of today's lesson is the difference
between poll and survey. Yeah.
Sometimes I get student ask me, you know,
the question what's the difference between
a poll on a survey. So that's what
we're going to cover here. All tight.
Let's take a look at that note.
A poll usually just focuses on one question.
A single question, and will often have
multiple choice answers. Sometimes
only two. Like if it were two candidates
running for office, you know.
Do you vote for this person or that person ?
Sometimes it could be in the primaries,
where there's three, four or five candidates.
and then your multiple
choice will be you know A this person,
B this person, C or they may even have
another as a choice too. Polls tend to
be political in nature. Yeah. So we're
probably going to have more polls about
politics than, than most other things.
Often directly about voting or being in
favor or against some issue, some issue
in society or maybe some issue that the
government is going to be voting on
Whether you're for it or against it. So, Yeah.
So polls tend to be mostly this way.
So you got like fifty, fifty-five percent
for it. Forty -five percent against it. Or
they may have undecided as a possible
option as well. Okay. Let's continue. Polls
are often paid by a company , political party,
news network , etc. Yeah some may
after worrying I mean there's been more
talk recently how how easy it is
sometimes to skew polls. You know
especially since it's just one question.
Very often you know, a lot of the
political parties or news networks when
they take a poll. Sometimes they want it
to favor one side or another. Whatever,
whatever their agenda is, in favor of
they want it to favor that. So sometimes
they could skew a poll several ways.
Sometimes they can do it with what they
call oversampling. Maybe if they ask more
people in one area or in one party than
another party. That could actually skew a
poll. Or maybe they might revert they may
change the question in such a way that
it would favor whatever outcome they
want. And then there's even more talk
that there might be even more ways to
skew poles today, because a lot of times
since the companies that are paying for
them want certain results they know that
these companies can actually buy
Information on people like them you know,
Facebook or Twitter and they could check
out you know, what websites you go to, or
if you post anything, and then they have
a really good, then really good idea
which side you may vote for. So polls can
be skewed. So you got to be very careful about polls.
All right. Let's take a look at a survey,
What's a survey ? A survey will usually
ask many questions, and may have a very
wide range of questions. Surveys are usually
more time-consuming. Yeah. Because
they may ask 10 questions or 20 questions.
So that could sometimes take
time and many are done by companies to
get feedback on their products and services.
Yeah. Some companies they want this.
They want to know if somebody tried their product
before or have they ever heard of their company ?
or what do they do they like or don't like.
So the questions can vary,
and you know, you could have someone
standing there for a while asking the questions.
So a lot of times when you're stopped in the streets,
especially by like students or do something.
And they'll ask, will you do this ?
You might be standing there for about 5 minutes or 10
minutes or something answering all their questions
So surveys tend to be longer, and they
may have many many more questions.
Okay. Let's continue, my company
to feedback on the products that some
other surveys could be done by researchers
as well to collect on information
about a particular subject.
You know, maybe something to do with
psychology or sociology could be
anything like that. Because surveys are
more time-consuming, respondents are
sometimes offered a free gift to participate.
Well they know, that you know,
the average person doesn't want to stand
there for five or ten minutes. So maybe
they'll offer you some T-shirt or a pen
or it's usually something that's pretty
cheap. But still it's for free. So
sometimes people do it. That's what they
may do in order to encourage you to take
your time to answer the survey. Okay.
Anyway I hope it's kind of clear. I hope
you can see like the big difference
between poll it's usually just a single
question and just a little multiple
choice answer.Surveys are usually many
questions and multiple, you know , many
many questions and of course they offer
you sometimes a free gift on it and
often done for feedback. Okay, Anyway , I hope
you got it . I hope it id clear. Thank you for your time . Bye-bye.