This definitely does not want to be a poll. (A poll on “Does Foo have the Bar property?” is interesting when people have a shared, unambiguous concept of what the Bar property is and disagree whether Foo has it. Ambiguity about how different senses of Bar relate to each other wants to be either a sequence of multi-thousand-word blog posts, or memes.)
I think there’s a variant that wants to be a poll. If you have a lot of different concepts that have lots of different ways of relating to each other, then this wants to be a survey so one can do some sort of factor/cluster analysis to identify the different philosophies people might have, and maybe correlate it with other variables of interest.
This definitely does not want to be a poll. (A poll on “Does Foo have the Bar property?” is interesting when people have a shared, unambiguous concept of what the Bar property is and disagree whether Foo has it. Ambiguity about how different senses of Bar relate to each other wants to be either a sequence of multi-thousand-word blog posts, or memes.)
I think there’s a variant that wants to be a poll. If you have a lot of different concepts that have lots of different ways of relating to each other, then this wants to be a survey so one can do some sort of factor/cluster analysis to identify the different philosophies people might have, and maybe correlate it with other variables of interest.