Meaning of 'opinion polls'

[Semerjaka]

Test No. incompl/advan-4 "Newspaper Headlines", question 10

Politicians pretend to ignore opinion ..........

(a) votes
(b) figures
(c) numbers
(d) polls

Test No. incompl/advan-4 "Newspaper Headlines", answer 10

Politicians pretend to ignore opinion polls.

Correct answer: (d) polls
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Why polls?

Semerjaka

[Alan]

An opinion poll is information collected by means of interbviewing people about their views (opinions) and creating statistics showing the different percentages of how many people think this and how many people think that.
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[Li2]

So it means survey can be a synomin of poll?

[Alan]

Hi Li2,

'Survey' is usually broader in its scope and 'poll' is more often concerned with numbers and percentages. Both however are used for finding/collecting information. Note the spelling - synonym.

Alan
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[Li2]

Hi Li2, Mr Alan, I am really apreciate your dedication and time for answer and even more correct my mistakes, this is the opportunity to thanks and say how happy i am to belong to this web, sincerely, Liliana