[GMeyer]

To answer this poll, simply select the country your robotics team is in.

The Poll

It seems that the subject of bias in Chief Delphi polling is an increasingly hot subject on Chief Delphi. It has long been orthodoxy that polls on this site are skewed towards more experienced teams, but in the past week there's been a quest to prove this. Spurred by this post, Caleb Sykes was led to start this thread to confirm whether the bias was actually there. Following that, that thread then spurred Rangel(kf7fdb) to start this thread. In my view, both of these polls largely confirmed that Chief Delphi is indeed biased towards more experienced teams.

Now, I want to find out something else about bias. I've long had a hunch that Chief Delphi polls are biased towards North American teams, but I want to see if this is true. To that end, I thought of this simple poll.

There's a reason this matters. If polls are biased towards North American teams, that has profound implications for strategy and polling accuracy, particularly once you reach Nationals, where there will be teams from all over the world, which dilutes the accuracy of any polling results.

Thanks for Responding!

Update: I've checked the FIRST website's Team & Event Search, and found that the list that I used remained up to date. Therefore, I removed the "other" option from the poll.