Thinking about polls

Some stuff I've figured out while designing polls online (specifically on lj clones). This is not about Real Scientific Polls, which one hopes are designed with Real Scientific Ethics etc in mind. I'm still figuring this stuff out, so please tell me what I've missed/screwed up etc.

I guess overall the most important thing I've learned: Never make people feel excluded, even if it messes with your data a bit. You're not doing Proper Research here anyway. And unless your poll is on a locked post and you know your flist really well, don't assume everyone taking it cisgendered/American/Western/straight/young/etc.

Specifically, unless it's a joke question always have an "other" option, and where possible use checkboxes. That way people who fall between the cracks of your questions (and there'll always be someone) have a better chance of finding an answer that better describes them.
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THe power and dreams of ladies on telly

I've been watching Flashforward and quite enjoying it, the slow reveal of plot, timey-wimey stuff(*), and the charcater's reactions to both are pretty good so far. The female characters are pretty well drawn too, even if there's a bit of Bechdel fail.

But it just struck me: afaict every single significant adult female character's vision is about (heterosexual) love/sex, or children. As I recall the only female characters of any significance whose visions were not of this type are deux ex machina one-offs whose vision is vital to a male character's arc.

Since I only just noticed this in episode 3 I may have missed some in the first two episodes.

Also: having just seen the most recent episode of Dollhouse, as much as the show may be dodgy it does occasionally shine with effective gender commentary. It's a heady mix of awesome, fail, and generic B-grade crap.

(*)Everyone in the world blacked out and had a 2 minute vision of six months in the future. So now not only does everyone have to deal with the damage and death from the blackout, but whatever mundane or inspiring or disturbing vision they saw. And things are coming together to make those visions come true, which is not always a good thing...