Built so the number can be trusted.
A poll is only worth as much as the method behind it. Here is exactly how TheWorldSays collects, protects and publishes what the world says.
Anonymous by design
We store only your country, derived from your connection, plus a salted hash of your IP. The raw IP is never written to disk and no vote is tied to an identity.
One person, one vote
A unique constraint enforces a single vote per question, and lightweight fingerprinting plus rate limiting discard automated traffic.
Country from the edge
Location comes from the network edge at the moment you vote — accurate enough to map global opinion, never precise enough to find you.
No agenda, no ads
We do not sell ads or take payment to promote questions. What you see is editorially independent.
Open, aggregated data
Results are published as aggregates by country and over time, with a documented method. Individual responses are never exposed.
Honest numbers
We would rather show a smaller, trustworthy result than a big one we cannot stand behind. Suspect traffic is removed before anything is published.
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