Poll Gadget

Polls are a big business today.  Corporations and Politicians alike spend big money to get your opinion on the questions they care about. Companies like Gallup exist for this purpose and utilize various methods to get inside your head.

Setting up the poll gadget was my chance to gather data for a question that I found interesting and relevant to the field that I work in today.  I wanted to know how each student accesses the Internet at home. While I suspected that cable would win out, I was surprised to see that one person is actually using satellite to access the Internet.  I'm curious how well it works and what else the user has to say about the service.  Because I work for a Telecommunications company, I was hoping to see more votes for DSL but I'm not at all surprised that most people are using cable to access the Internet.

Setting up the poll gadget was very user friendly and took seconds to do.  While most polls were clean and easy to read, I did notice that some polls had readability issues.  I really dislike scroll bars inside a webpage.

While voting on the other polls, it was interesting to see the variety of topics that other students care about and what poll options were used.  The one I found most interesting is the question about USPS and how long before it gets shut down.  I found it very interesting that Jen only posted three options; 1 year, 2 years and 5 years.  With these three options, it appears that the closure of USPS services is inevitable. What if I believe that USPS will be here for another 50 years?