Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poll's Purpose...
...Brown's poll reported in the CRIMSON yesterday, based as it is upon an inconclusive number of participants, appears to have violated one of the more basic principles of statistical methodology. He himself has admitted that "the poll provides little information as to the real "character" of the Houses." By allowing the results of such a poll to be made public, he has done a disservice to his own field of Social Relations. But what is worse, and what we cannot allow to go unnoticed, is the fact that he has also done a disservice to the guiding principle...
Residents of Lowell and Winthrop solidly confirmed the undergraduate reputations of their Houses, in a poll taken by members of Social Relations...
...residents listed Lowell as predominantly "intellectual," "literary," "conservative," "intelligent," in the adjective categories of the poll. Members of the House supported these opinions, although they voted less emphatically in the "aesthetic" and "literary" categories...
Roger W. Brown, assistant professor of Social Psychology, who directed the poll, emphasized that since only 100 students participated, the poll provides little information as to the real "character" of the Houses...