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How It Works
1. Create
Choose a poll type and fill it out.
2. Share
Send your poll to other people.
3. Get Results
Check the results in real-time.
Our Types of Polls
Straw Poll
A straw poll is a voting that can be used to help people to easily determine the opinion of a group or the public on some issue. Straw polls are very useful when only the majority opinion is important and not the opinion of each individual participant.
Features
Private or public polls
Anonymous voting
Unlimited participants
Real-time results
Avoidance of duplicate voting
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Meeting Poll
StrawPoll Meetings is a great and simple tool to schedule meetings and other times with clients, colleagues or friends. A meeting poll is very helpful in situations where the opinion of each individual participant is important.
Easy date picking
Always private
Email invitations
Votes can be edited later
Excel export
StrawPoll Features
Free
Save money! All our polls and meetings are 100% free to create.
VPN Detection
By default, VPN users are blocked from voting on straw polls.
Deadlines
Our polls run indefinetly. You can change that by setting a deadline.
Emoji Support
We support all Emojis natively. Feel free to use as many as you want!
Intranet
In schools, universities or at work, set the options accordingly.
Dashboard
Manage all your polls in a single place by using your account dashboard.
API
We provide an easy to use API for poll creation and result analysis.
Development
We are activly working on more features. Send us your feature requests!
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Make a Free Strawpoll in Seconds | PollMaker
Use the No. 1 rated online strawpoll maker
How to make a Strawpoll
Add your question above, avoid using vague or biased language.
Add all possible answer options. Hit the picture icon to add picture answers
Click share and distribute your strawpoll to your audience
Have confidence in your Results
We use a Google derived fingerprint technology to protect your results against strawpoll bots and other common strawpoll hacks. There is no point conducting a strawpoll if you have no confidence in the results, we ensure your results are highly accurate.
Take a peek at the settings tab to dial up or down your preferred security level.
Set Start and End Times
Set your strawpoll start and end dates automatically. Got a time sensitive strawpoll question you wish to start and end automatically? Setup your start and end times on the Advanced section of the settings tab above. Your startpoll will automatically start and stop and be sensitive to various timezones.
Run one Stawpoll on Facebook, Twitter and more
On the share tab you’ll see a number of ways to share your strawpoll. Post a link directly to facebook, twitter or embed it directly on your website, this allows you to engage audiences from everywhere to sample the largest possible
number of views and opinions.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do strawpolls last?
You may run your strawpoll for as long as your audience is engaged. We do not set limits on the length of time a strawpoll may run. You may wish to run a monthly strawpoll to compare opinions over time or check your graphs to see how sharply voter engagment is falling.
In our experience 5-7 days allows enough time for most strawpolls to reach adequate vote counts.
Can I edit my strawpoll?
You can manage existing strawpolls by logging into the Dashboard. You’ll be able to copy, delete and even manage the security of your existing strawpolls.
Can I hide results?
You may wish to hide the results from your strawpoll voters in order to reduce manipulation and hacking. Hit the settings tab above to see the option to do this.
Can I create a stawpoll with pictures?
Yes simply hit the image icon next to either the question or answer options in the strawpoll maker to upload or search for images.
How do I run a strawpoll on my website?
When you hit share you’ll see an option to embed the strawpoll on your website. Copy and paste the embed code directly into your content management system to run the strawpoll on your website.
Ho do I run a strawpoll on facebook
Yes our strawpolls are compatible with facebook. Simply grab the link for your strawpoll on the share page and post the URL to facebook.
What is a strawpoll?
A Strawpoll is an informal means of measuring interest and opinions for a particular question. Strawpolls often lead to more formal polls in which you engage a wider audience with stricter security measures and apply sampling tests to ensure your poll represents the views of your audience.
It is believed the term strawpoll derived from the practice of holding a straw in the wind to see which direction the wind is blowing.
Are strawpolls accurate?
We aim to improve the accuracy of your strawpoll by implementing a number of security measures to prevent voter fraud. We utilize a Google developed digital fingerprint to identify voter manipulation and remove these votes from your results. You may control these measures using the ‘Settings’ tab above.
Tips to make your strawpoll successful
Avoid loaded questions
A study showed a picture of a basketball player and asked half of an audience ‘How tall do you estimate the player to be’ and the other half ‘How short do you estimate the player to be’ the average height varied by 6 inches. Try and keep the language in your strawpoll neutral.
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Show all possible answer options
Your strawpoll should container all possible answers otherwise you risk skewing results towards an option which isn’t representative of your audiences views. Fortunately we allow you to have an ‘Other’ option in your strawpoll
Use pictures
Don’t ask questions your audience has already answered. Attention is precious commodity online and our own data has show straw polls with pictures command approximately a 30% higher engagement rate.
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Use the Strawpoll Dashboard
Log into the Dashboard to manage your strawpoll. You copy and edit existing strawpolls if for example you find a typo or an excellent answer option you have not already considered
Free Straw Poll Template – Typeform
No trick—just a treat. Up to 25% extra off yearly plans Fall Sale ends Oct 8. Get discountFull Screen PreviewEngage your fans, friends, and customers with random and anonymous straw pollsGet started in seconds. Collect opinions quickly. Share results easily. Use this straw poll template to get the right information to drive your poll FAQs:1. What is a straw poll? A straw poll helps you understand what the public thinks about a given issue or person. It’s an unofficial vote that can be used to help people to make more effective decisions. A poll on voting intention, for example, might help politicians understand why some voters are opting for their rival—and change what they say during the election campaign. There are two types of polls: “scientific”, that use random sampling controls to get a sample that’s statistically representative of a population, and “unscientific” polls that are cast out without any sampling controls. In both cases, they provide quick results for making snappy decisions. In large groups, spontaneous straw polls are used to gauge the amount of support for a particular idea. 2. How accurate are straw polls? It depends how you use them. Your biggest nemesis is selection bias. In the 1936 US presidential election, The Literary Digest sent a poll to people in motor vehicle registries and telephone books, and believed the result was an accurate representation of the voting population. It wasn’t. During the Great Depression, many Americans couldn’t afford cars and phones, and as a result they weren’t consulted in the poll. Think about how to poll an authentic cross-section of the population. Evaluate the profiles of people that use your main distribution channels, and figure out how to reach people outside those channels. Most importantly, you need the right tool. Typeform’s interface is human-friendly on desktop and mobile. Plus it’s effective—people engage more, leading to more responses. 3. What should I consider when making a quick poll? Think carefully about your question. Aim to ask something in the most unbiased way possible. Words sway people—for example, in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum the original question: “Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country? ” was changed to: “Should Scotland be an independent country? ” Why? Because polling experts concluded that “do you agree” frames the question in a positive light—people don’t really like disagreeing. Even for straw polls, you may also experience “first-listing bias” where the first candidate in the list gains a handful more votes than the second candidate. With Typeform’s poll maker you can randomize the answers to eliminate the chance of that happening. 4. How do I create a online straw poll with Typeform? Think about the demographic of your voters—the presentation of your poll needs to cater to all of them. Choose the clearest font possible, and a color scheme that’s friendly to people with color blindness. A lot of voters won’t be aware who the candidates are—use Typeform’s Image question type to solve this problem. Decide whether you want to display photos of the candidates or their party’s logo. When you make a straw poll, think short and sweet. The more data the better, and you wouldn’t want to put off potential voters by asking for their life story. One or two follow-up questions could really help your campaign—you might, for example, want to ask about the issues that matter most to your respondents. Ask, listen, it uniquely yoursCustomize to your heart’s content: backgrounds, Google fonts, colors, buttons, and more.
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