text: By seeking multiple multiple opinions you can form an unbiased opinion. With so many biased people these days it's hard to find a unbiased opinion. By holding straw polls on the internet you can get multiple opinions from people all over the world with different backgrounds, interest, and upbringings. If someone wanted to know if apples are better than oranges then they could hold a straw poll on many sites and have people explain why they think that one fruit is better than the other. By getting more than one opinion the data that you collected can give you a far more accurate reading on what people think is better. Allowing the person who held the poll to form an unbiased and accurate opinion.