Hopefully, we will be able to gain insight from these polls that will help us select which essays need to be created or enhanced on our web site. However, this only relates to the individuals who actually answered our poll. Our readers live in over 75 countries around the world, not just in the U.S. and Canada.
Internet users tend to have above-average technical knowledge and are atypical in other ways.
The age distribution of our readers probably does not match that of the U.S. population. We don't know why about 2,000 of our readers answered each poll, while a much larger number did not. Some of our readers may have voted more than one time. Unfortunately, the poll at the time only allowed 5 options. We have seen this sort of relationship before.