For religious views, I also think "I opt out of the religious conversation" is a legit and unique answer worthy of a category.
I'm going to post similar surveys in the Free For All and in the Shark Pool. I appreciate everyone's comments about the poll questions. I'm going to mostly leave things the way I had them in this first poll, in part because I want the results to be easy to compare with each other. But I figured I'd comment on some of the specific feedback.
I think theist, atheist, and agnostic covers everything by the law of the excluded middle. Opting out of the discussion can fit into any of those, as applicable, or can be chosen by not answering that question.
the religious family background one needs a choice for none/atheist in addition to "other religion"
I'm going to leave this one as it is because I suspect that everyone's family had a religious tradition if you go back enough generations.
i can't be the only retired guy and resent no "other" for political affiliation, but done
I goofed in not including "retired" as an option in the first poll. I'll add it to the others.
I'm going to leave the political affiliation question as it is because I don't want people to use "other" as a way to avoid having to decide which one
best describes them if that seems moderately difficult.
@Maurile Tremblay It appears as though you can enter this more than once. Is there a way you will filter or remove duplicate entries?
Or you don't mind if someone wants to do it eg 10 times?
I could force people to log into their Google accounts in order to fill out the survey. That's the only way to prevent duplicate submissions, but I don't think it's worth it. I want it to be as easy as possible for people to take the survey. (Also, forcing people to sign in may make people question their ability to remain anonymous.)
I am pro immigration and strongly pro wall...where does that put me on the immigration question?
It's possible to favor more legal immigration while wanting to invest more resources into preventing illegal immigration (or, theoretically, vice versa), but I think I'm going to leave this question the way it is. If people want more leniency on one type and more restrictiveness on the other type, try to net out the total effect.
Feel like the race and religion questions should be check boxes rather than bubbles.
Certainly there can be mixes, but to keep things simple, I'd prefer people to pick the one that they most closely identify with.