Which of the following does not illustrate the survey method of choosing a speech topic?
a steven watches the news carefully jotting down ideas from the top headlines of the day
b. allison asks the students in each of her classes which of her top two speech topics they would prefer
to hear.
c. farrah visits to gauge which political issue is foremost on the public's mind.
d. all of the above are examples of using the survey method.

Option A does not come under a survey because survey refers to research of collecting data about a particular topic and do insights with the collected data and then convert that an information. But option A does not research or collect data, it speaks about events and happenings.

Whereas, Option B collects information from group of people and then a decision is made. So it is a survey.

When we analyze option C, once again it collects data about the people’s mind. So it comes under survey.