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Frequently Asked Questions

How can Ask500People help my business?
Ask500People helps businesses conduct fast market research. You can create a poll right now, and start getting responses in seconds. Graphs show how people answered by gender, age, income, education and location.
What kinds of polls can I ask for my business?
Here are some example business polls.
Does Ask500People handle custom or ongoing polling projects?
If you'd like to use Ask500People for a custom or ongoing polling project then contact us. We'd love to help.
Can I resell or offer Ask500People's services through my business?
Yes, Ask500People services can be offered to through your business and under your brand exclusively. If you're interested, contact us for details.
Where do the answers to Ask500People polls come from?
In addition to showing your poll on Ask500People, we work with a large network of partner sites who display Ask500People polls. When you launch a poll, we send it out over this network and answers start arriving in seconds.
Who answers Ask500People polls?
Most our respondents are people who simply came across one of our polls, answered it, and continued on their way. They represent a broad range of incomes, education levels, ages, and genders.
Can I see demographic information about the people who voted on my poll?
We collect age, income, education, and gender information about our respondents. Graphs display how people answered based on their demographic information.
Will all votes have demographic information?
We collect as much demographic information from our respondents as we can, but not all votes will have demographic information.
What is the difference between a business poll and normal poll on Ask500People?
  • Business polls can be launched right away (or scheduled to launch to reach a particular audience e.g. "during business hours").
  • Business polls receive priority on our voting network.
  • Results are private, and can only be viewed by the creator of the poll.
  • Business polls can collect responses from around the world, or target people in a specific country (only the USA is available so far).
Will people be able to see the results of my Ask500People poll?
Results of business polls are private and can only be viewed by the creator of the poll. The identity and company of the person running the poll are also private.
How accurate are the results?
The accuracy of polling results can be described using this table.
Votes Error Margin (at 95% confidence level)
5 44%
25 20%
50 14%
100 10%
250 6%
500 4%

Confidence Level represents the likelihood that your results are real and repeatable, as opposed to random.  A confidence level of 95% means if you ran a poll 100 times, 95 out of 100 the results of the poll would fall within the margin of error at that confidence level.