Do you believe HRC, if elected President, will rein in Wall Street and regulate it properly?

[JoePhilly]

68. At least a couple ... otherwise people can use their own definitions.

I create surveys in my work, and I know a fair amount about survey design.

Its very easy to create a poll that gets the responses you want by simply using ambiguous terms.

So for instance, here on DU, an ambiguous term like "properly" is going to allow folks who dislike Hillary to attack her, without saying much of anything at all. Other than she won't regulate "properly", whatever that means.

Which you can see is what happened in your poll. Almost everyone picked the same choice.

A well constructed poll provides a set of choices which separate people on some dimension. In this case, the extent to which Hillary would regulate Wall Street (which technically really means whether she'd support regulations of various types, given she has to deal with Congress too).

Your poll doesn't do that. It does not discriminate.

Basically, your survey could have just had the choices, Yes and No, and you'd get about the same outcome.

Your poll doesn't have sufficient choices that discriminate sub-groups in your sample. Which is why one usually creates a poll.