Urtak is a free collaborative public opinion

Public opinion

Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the adult population. Public opinion can also be defined as the complex collection of opinions of many different people and the sum of all their views....

 website founded in 2008. An urtak survey can be created by any individual for his or her community. The users of an urtak survey can add questions of their own to the survey, as well as answer questions that have been asked by other users. As soon as a question is answered, previous responses to the question by other users are immediately displayed in the form of a pie chart

Pie chart

A pie chart is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each sector , is proportional to the quantity it represents. When angles are measured with 1 turn as unit then a number of percent is identified with the same number of centiturns...

, and users are also able to search for and browse the results of previously answered questions. All questions are fed randomly to participants and have only three options for answering: "yes," "no," and "don't care."

The first urtak survey to have been created was the "General Interest" Urtak. Since Urtak was founded in 2008, over 160 Urtak surveys have been created, more than 23,000 questions have been asked, and over 3 million responses have been given.

External links

• Urtak
• The Official Urtak Blog
• "Urtak Answers Your Questions" article by Your Tango.
• "Ask me" article by One+ Magazine (July 2009).
• "Adam Rose: The Poll is Dead; Long Live the Poll" article by The Huffington Post (July 15, 2009).