There may be some statisticians reading here that might disagree with you. I've never made my living polling, but I have studied the subject for about half of a semester during one of the six courses in statistics and operations research that I took in grad school.

There are polls that can be designed to compare one item with another. There are others that are designed to measure satisfaction or dissatisfaction with something. As an example, the annual poll of Villages residents, designed to measure their satisfaction with various elements of this place where we live doesn't require that we live in another retirement community so that we can compare the two. The poll is designed to measure what we like and don't like about living here, even if this is the only retirement community where we've ever resided.

I won't attempt to provide a long list of other polls designed similar to the international healthcare poll conducted by The Gallup Organization. although I could.

There's little sense in you and I debating statistical polling, Keedy. I won't convince you and I know enough about how polls are conducted and their accuracy not to change my mind based on your one-liners. Let's just say that my reaction to your latest one needn't go further than the title of this response...HUH???