The data presented here was collected anonymously during the ISC'23 BoF session on "Understanding the Skills and Pathways Behind Research Software Training" via a live Mentimeter poll. The session was attended by approximately 70 people with up to 50 session participants responding interactively to the questions in the room (the questions could only be answered when displayed on the screen during the workshop session). There was no pre-registration for the session so we have no details of the profile of audience members or which of the participants in the room chose to respond to which questions. The session attendees were asked 9 questions, and the number of respondents and responses varied between questions, with 24 to 50 participants engaging and providing 32 to 59 replies. Questions were of two types, those requiring only a numeric score and those with the option for open-ended text responses. This file contains the anonymous data from this workshop session.