"No, ahaha! Not a pole, but a poll. Kinda like, a survey?"

How should she explains it...? She would remember those names, but...

"Like say, we hand out a document with a hundred questions, each with multiple choice answers. Then when everyone has answered, we get the documents back and examine them for patterns. We come from different countries, eras and even worlds, right? So odds are we should all be answering pretty different stuff."

Well, that made sense to her at least.

"But if there are a few questions where most of us answer the same thing..." Finger snap. "Bingo! We got our common thread."