take a poll?

[ddubug]

Hi,

I'm reading about our brain's 'quirks'...means...bias.
This passage from 'Guinea Pig Diaries' written by AJ Jacobs.

What does this 'take a poll' mean?

<The Creaking Bridge Effect-Our tendency to confuse general excitement
and fear with sexual excitement. I got the name from an experiment
involving an attractive woman asking men to take a poll. If the poll was
given on a dangerously creaky footbridge, the men were much more
likely to hit on the woman than if the poll was given on steady ground.>

poll....is 'survey'...right?

But I don't know what a kind of survey can happen on a creaky footbridge?

 

[sdgraham]

There was no difference in the type of poll. The scenario is an experiment based upon male-female social interaction on a creaky foot bridge as compared with interactrion on solid ground.

 

[Trosa]

Hey

What about in this case?

Before long Woolard was on the phone, talking to other board members, explaining his thinking, taking a poll.

Thanks

 

[sdgraham]

It's still a survey, in this case of the members.

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[aes_uk]

take a poll. If the poll was
given on a dangerously creaky footbridge, the men were much more
likely to hit on the woman than if the poll was given on steady ground.>

poll....is 'survey'...right?

But I don't know what a kind of survey can happen on a creaky footbridge?

You're right, a poll is a survey, and the extract is saying that they got different results when the poll was asked on a creaky footbridge rather than on steady ground. It is the same poll, but it took place in 2 different locations.

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