Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the past two months, according to a Louis Harris poll, support for the war has dropped from 72% to 61%, with the sharpest drop occurring among Americans who previously backed the President's policy of "fighting to get a negotiated peace." Harris concludes that "the growing public disenchantment stems directly from the now dominant view that the war is not going better militarily." The reliable Minnesota poll is in general agreement...
Since it is obviously impractical to poll the nation on anything less important than the selection of a President, one cherished statistical tool is the sample. Not even statisticians can agree on how big or good a sample can be relied upon as representing the whole. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's celebrated reports were criticized by statisticians not so much for their moral implications but because they made sweeping presumptions on the basis of too small a sample (in the male study, only 5,300 men provided data). The Nielsen ratings, by which television programs live or die, have...
Double Standard. To track down cases and contacts, Dr. Fiumara's investigators pose as social workers, saleswomen, poll takers or long-lost relatives. They arrange interviews in law offices, public libraries, department stores and cocktail lounges. "VD certainly shows no class prejudice," says one nurse-detective. "I go to a fair share of houses with maids and chauffeurs. Parents in the upper and middle classes get hysterical when I tell them that one of them, or their child, has been named as a contact. And there's a double standard: fathers get apoplectic if they hear that...
...nurses was given the name of a homosexual VD carrier. (This type of case is difficult because of the promiscuity involved; whereas adult heterosexuals average four recent contacts and teen-agers six, homosexuals average up to twelve.) Posing as a poll taker, she talked her way into his Back Bay apartment. When she gave him the bad news, he gagged, ran to the bathroom and vomited. When he emerged, he fainted dead away. "Luckily," says the nurse, "he fainted right next to his well-stocked bar, so I just reached over and poured a bit of brandy into him." Restored...
...result, U.S. public support for the U.N. rose sharply: from 50% of the people in 1953, according to one poll, to 74% in 1955. Lodge was a master dramatist. After the U-2 flap in 1960, for example, he memorably countered holier-than-thou Soviet rhetoric by revealing that the Russians had bugged the U.S. embassy in Moscow-and displaying the Great Seal that had contained...