Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen moved gingerly. A bare majority was reported to be in favor, but few of them were ready to commit themselves until they knew definitely how the public winds blew. Public opinion showed that most U.S. citizens were in favor of such an act. The Gallup poll showed 63% answering Yes; an Iowa poll (sponsored by the Des Moines Sunday Register), 71%; the FORTUNE poll, 69%; the National Opinion Research Center poll...
Last week Gallup pollsters reported: 1) 90% of Canadians want the Dominion to join a security organization; 2) 76% approve participation by Canadians in an international police force; 3) but only 39% approve participation while Canada, as a small nation, lacks a permanent seat on the council that controls the police...
After a national runny-nose count, the indefatigable Dr. Gallup announced last week that 1) children under ten have nearly twice as many colds as people in their 20s, 2) more farmers (by a handkerchief's breadth) have colds than villagers and cosmopolites, 3) 21,000,000 citizens had colds between...
Actually, a random sampling of opinion "directly from the voters" is highly untrustworthy. Accurate results can be obtained only by applying an elaborate series of checks and balances concerning types of voters, voting habits, etc. His polls, explained Dr. Gallup, depend on "at least twelve important adjustments for their accuracy." In this complex mathematical calculation, involving such unknown quantities as election-day weather, the only sin of which Pollster Gallup appeared guilty was that he may have used his Xs to bring down Roosevelt's vote and failed to recognize other X factors which would bring it up again...
Replied Dr. Gallup: "This is an empirical science. We must learn by experience...