Technician Polls
I recently discovered an interesting section on Technician Online, the web version of the student newspaper. It is a regular poll on questions relating to student life, campus activities and university politics.
These polls provide some insight into our student population. There are obviously a couple limitations with these polls. The participants self-select. And, I've never seen any data regarding demographics of the regular readers of this online paper, so I can't even begin to surmise who these students are. (To the Technician's credit, they have a disclaimer about this not being a scientific poll.) Also, the answer options are sometimes non-exclusive and overlap.
Nonetheless, it is an interesting slice of data. If nothing else, we know what is on the mind of the person creating the poll questions!