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.