How to view the poll statistics results

[2010BEBES]

I entered a Poll and saw the distribution of answers but how do i can see them now? I am viewing only the comments but not the option they selected.
When trying to view the Poll, I got another Poll to answer. I submit my vote and saw its distribution.
Is there a way of going to see the poll results (not the commnents)?

[Kezia]

Hello there,

Yes, of course. You might have missed Lappy's FAQ post specifically about Forum polls -- kindly refer to this one:

http://forum.brillkids.com/forum-how-tos-and-faqs/how-to-create-and-vote-in-forum-polls/

(see the "Voting In and Viewing a Poll" section)

 

[2010BEBES]

Thanks Kezia, I still have two questions.

1) When i go to the thread i see some options but they are not the ones I entered. They seem to be from a different question.
2) Please can you show me with an image where is the viewing button?

I am attaching the thread i am making reference to.

[Kezia]

Sorry, I might have misunderstood your question. 

Were you trying to view which poll option a specific person voted for? Because if that's what you were looking for, unfortunately you can't view that as each person's vote is simply tallied anonymously. The only results you may view would be the total tally for each poll option -- which is what will happen when you click on the "View Results" link. Anyway I've attached a screen shot showing this link just in case.

About your first question, do you mean the poll options that are currently displayed in your thread are actually not what you've originally written (when you were creating your poll)? What should be your real poll options, then?

I hope you don't mind clarifying 

[2010BEBES]

...
I hope you don't mind clarifying 

On the contrary Kezia, sorry for taking so much of your time.
I am using Poll for the first time and are thinking of more interesting way of using this statistics in the near future.

Yes I am trying to see the overall result of the options and not the response of one person in particular.
As you can see on the figure i attach, i only have 2 options, lock and edit. I do not have Viewing as seen on your image. Is it supposed to be seen for any member or only the creator. Maybe they are crossed.

The options shown have nothing to do with the question and the ones i included where about age
I think they where more or less:
1   0-6 month
2   6-12 month
3   12-18 month
4   19-24 month
5   up to 3 years
6   up to 4 years
7   up to 5 years
8   older than 5 yrs

Thank you for your patience

[Kezia]

As you can see on the figure i attach, i only have 2 options, lock and edit. I do not have Viewing as seen on your image. Is it supposed to be seen for any member or only the creator. Maybe they are crossed.

The options shown have nothing to do with the question and the ones i included where about age
I think they where more or less:
1   0-6 month
2   6-12 month
3   12-18 month
4   19-24 month
5   up to 3 years
6   up to 4 years
7   up to 5 years
8   older than 5 yrs

Now that you mentioned it, I've realized that the poll in your thread is totally unrelated to your poll topic 

It seems you have discovered a Forum poll bug -- we're looking into this now and will fix it as soon as possible.
I'll reply here again once we get the poll feature running properly.

Thank you very much for reporting this error! Here's some karma for you 

[Kezia]

Hi again,

This is really a mysterious error - we tried checking other polls and testing new ones but it seems that this problem only appeared in your poll.
Unfortunately we cannot retrieve your original poll, so can you kindly try making another one (or maybe you could edit the one that's currently displayed in your poll thread)?

We're very sorry for this inconvenience 


P.S.
Regarding the "View" link, note that once you have already voted you won't be able to go back to the voting page (the one with buttons) anymore, and so whenever you visit the poll thread you'll automatically see the poll results. Otherwise if you haven't voted yet, you will be able to view the current poll results (you will have the "View" link) and then go back to the voting page later to finally cast your vote.

[2010BEBES]

...(or maybe you could edit the one that's currently displayed in your poll thread)?
..
P.S.
Regarding the "View" link, note that once you have already voted you won't be able to go back to the voting page (the one with buttons) anymore, and so whenever you visit the poll thread you'll automatically see the poll results. Otherwise if you haven't voted yet, you will be able to view the current poll results (you will have the "View" link) and then go back to the voting page later to finally cast your vote.

Dont worry I will try to edit it and keep you inform. I hope you find the bug.
I will check the Viewing issue. I was the first one to vote but I am not seeing the poll results, only the comments.

[2010BEBES]

OK, I edit it and now it looks correct but i am not sure if the results are from this poll because only 4 responded and there are 18 entries in the poll results. Maybe many just vote and make no comments.

Can that be?

Dont worry too much about this POLL I can work others.
I like how you see the results in the POLL. I will be thinking a POLL on foreing languages taught to babies and kids. But it is difficult to decide what is foreign, would you consider 'your' native language or your 'home' language (where you actually live)?
Do you have any POLL related to this?

[Kezia]

...
OK, I edit it and now it looks correct but i am not sure if the results are from this poll because only 4 responded and there are 18 entries in the poll results. Maybe many just vote and make no comments.
...

Yep, it is possible that the other voters just didn't post a comment, but it's more likely that those votes were meant for the "wrong poll question" that was originally posted in your thread -- to remedy this I've just reset all the vote counts back to 0 so you can just ask everyone to re-vote.

From searching the entire forum it seems that there aren't that many polls about teaching foreign languages (there are LOTS of discussions, though), so probably your poll is actually the first one.

About your other question, it is indeed tricky to label which language is "foreign" since this definitely depends on what each individual person's native language is (or at least the one they've been using as a somewhat "default language"). In general, though, I think most people would just count any non-english language as "foreign" to make things simple.

[2010BEBES]

....About your other question, it is indeed tricky to label which language is "foreign" since this definitely depends on what each individual person's native language is (or at least the one they've been using as a somewhat "default language"). In general, though, I think most people would just count any non-english language as "foreign" to make things simple.

I add an explanations that the language t consider is one that is not the one spoken where you live, even being the parent's native language.

[2010BEBES]

Again I am having problems with the PLL i created. Maybe POLLS should not be entered because it is not working.
I recently entered a POLL on Stage of Pregnancy but if you see the options they have nothing to do with the ones i entered.

[Lappy]

Hi 2010BEBES,

Our team of programmers have actually been following this specific situation you are having, and we have tested and double-tested the poll system, finding no errors or bugs in the result. Even as we create polls, the results show just fine. It appears that this is only happening to your polls, to your account.

I am a little puzzled as to how this is happening, since there are no others who are reporting this, and we cannot replicate this error on our side either. I also do not know where the "entries" which are replacing your original poll are coming from [I am pertaining to the poll question and the choices].

I'd like to propose an experiment - can you try to make a poll again --- mark it as [TEST] on the subject and post it in the board where you usually make your polls.  Use the following choices for your poll:

 - This is choice 1.
 - This is choice 2.
 - This is choice 3.
 - This is choice 4.
 - This is choice 5.

Double-check that the choices are typed in correctly before you click on the submit button.  After you have submitted it, please PM both Kezia and me to notify us that the poll is active, and we will try to vote in it and test it live.

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