For those of you who are conducting webinars, please stop taking stupid polls. For some reason, most people think that this increases the engagement, but if you aren’t actually going to tailor/change the content of your presentation as a result of the poll, then all you’re doing is wasting five minutes of everyone’s time.

If you are giving a webinar on COVID-19, don’t ask on a scale of 1 to 5 your level of concern.

If you’re giving a webinar on anxiety, don’t ask how often you find yourself worrying about things.

If someone is participating in a webinar on COVID-19, then obviously they have some heightened concern about the topic. If somebody is participating in a webinar on anxiety, and obviously the experience some level of anxiety or somebody close to them experiences some level of anxiety beyond just “occasionally”. Otherwise, why would we be participating in the webinar at all?