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Reviewing current and past polls

By reviewing current and past polls, you can analyze the results of the polls that you post on your site.

To access the to-date results for a current poll, choose Current from the QuickPolls CMS menu. To access the final results of past polls, choose Past.

When viewing past polls, you are presented with a list of all past polls for your account, like the following:

Past Polls list

To view detailed statistics for a given poll, simply click that poll's question.

The current poll page and the statistics page for past polls look very similar. Below the bar graphics and statistics, you will see the options selected when the poll was created:

Keep in mind that all polls show the percentage of polls submitted for which the answer was selected -- you could think of this as percentage of ballots with a given answer marked. Although the sum of percentages for single-choice polls will always add up to 100%, adding the percentages for multiple-choice polls is, by definition, meaningless.

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