Polling Quiz

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James Martin
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Social Studies
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University
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1.
Multiple Choice
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
2.
Multiple Choice
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
3.
Multiple Choice
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
4.
Multiple Choice
Which poll uses randomly selected and stratified sample populations to predict the voting behavior of a large population?
Online polls
Focus groups
Scientific polls
None of the above
5.
Multiple Choice
What kind of bias is produced in polls when people refuse to participate in polling calls?
Apathetic bias
Alienated bias
Nonresponsive bias
Response bias
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