Pol.is is a real-time survey system that helps identify the different ways a large group of people think about a divisive or complicated topic. Here’s a basic breakdown of some terms you’ll need to know in order to understand this report.
Participants: These are the people who participated in the conversation by voting and writing statements. Based on how they voted, each participant is sorted into an opinion group.
Statements: Participants may submit statements for other participants to vote on. Statements are assigned a number in the order they’re submitted.
Opinion groups: Groups are made of participants who voted similarly to each other, and differently from the other groups.
This ait-polis.pdis.nat.gov.tw conversation was run by 羅姆拉斯. The topic was 'A Secure Taiwan: Promoting U.S.-Taiwan Security Cooperation / 一個安全的台灣：增進美台安全合作'.
201
people voted
100
people grouped
3,495
votes were cast
58
statements were submitted
17.39
votes per voter on average
1.86
statements per author on average
How divisive was the conversation?
Statements (here as little circles) to the left were voted on the same way—either everyone agreed or everyone disagreed. Statements to the right were divisive—participants were split between agreement and disagreement.
How to use this: Hover to see the statement text. Start on the far right to find out what the most divisive statement was.
Consensus statements
Divisive statements
Majority
Here's what most people agreed with.
60% or more of all participants voted one way or the other, regardless of whether large amounts of certain minority opinion groups voted the other way.
Across 100 total participants, opinion groups emerged. There are two factors that define an opinion group. First, each opinion group is made up of a number of participants who tended to vote similarly on multiple statements. Second, each group of participants who voted similarly will have also voted distinctly differently from other groups.
Group A: 21 participants
Statements which make this group unique, by their votes:
StatementOverall100A21B25C54
Group B: 25 participants
Statements which make this group unique, by their votes:
40Investigate scam companies from Taiwan like cobinhood, regulate and protect US consumers as well.
49%8%42%(57)
25%6%68%(16)
46%15%38%(13)
64%7%28%(28)
Graph
Which statements were voted on similarly? How do participants relate to each other?
In this graph, statements are positioned more closely to statements which were voted on similarly. Participants, in turn, are positioned more closely to statements on which they agreed, and further from statements on which they disagreed. This means participants who voted similarly are closer together.
Click a statement, identified by its number, to explore regions of the graph.
All statements
Group votes across all statements, excluding those statements which were moderated out.
50台灣與美國分享共同的利益及普世價值。若美國能協助台灣與太平洋上的其他國家如日本、澳洲等建立更深入的交流，將能更加穩固太平洋的和平。 US and Taiwan share same interests and values. If US can help Taiwan to build similar connections to Pacific countries like Japan, Australia etc., then we would have stronger allies for pacific safety.