Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equally tricky is the effect of the pollster's questions. A vaguely worded or blatantly biased question can alter the results by 10% to 40%. A sound question gives the respondent a real choice: "Do you favor or oppose President Johnson's bombing pause...
...importance, they claimed, that only 20% of the psychiatrists they polled had even bothered to answer their admittedly loaded questionnaire. Nor did it matter that more than half of those who did answer disagreed with the diagnosis Fact published. Moreover, Ginzburg and Boroson did not think it wrong to alter some of the doctors' statements. "I thought it was eminently fair editing," said Ginzburg...
...remains that polls tempt candidates to be popular rather than right. Yet in a democracy, there is always a conflict between responsiveness and responsibility. And quite often the public is far more alert to the need for new policies than are self-justifying politicians, who may be loath to alter stand-pat positions. So for all the flaws and abuses of present-day polls, they do stimulate the dialogue between the people and their elected officials...
...Kremlin conference the week before? "No question that could sow distrust was at stake. The role of the Soviet Union has been much overplayed." Were the "military maneuvers" of the Russian army in Poland over? "Why don't you ask the Poles?" Cernik insisted that Czechoslovakia would never alter its ties to Russia, but added: "We think we can contribute to the dismantling of the cold war." Cernik and Sik made plain that investments by the capitalist world would henceforth be welcome, announced that small, family-scale free enterprise would again be permitted in Czechoslovakia. Eventually, Sik said...
...somewhat similar to table salt, is commonly used in density studies, but animal ribosomes were found to be unstable in this solution. The Russians circumvented this difficulty by "fixing" the ribosomes by tanning them with formaldehyde. Yet, according to Kafatos, this did not end the problem because tanning may alter the particles chemically so that the results may not be definitive. After a years's work, Kafatos, in collaboration with a colleague, Ned Feder, now at the National Institute of Health, synthesized a different salt to use in the centrifuge in which ribosomes would be stable. It took some detective...