Word: polling
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There are approximately 200 public and private polling organizations in the United States today; and most of the reputable ones have similar methods for conducting their surveys. The Gallup poll uses 300 sample precincts throughout the nation. These are chosen at random with the stipulation that the number in cities, towns, and rural areas be proportionate to the percentage of the population living in such areas. A Gallup interviewer, usually a housewife working part-time, is assigned to each precinct and told to start at a specific, randomly selected household and move from house to house until she has five...
When each interviewer has five interviews, he mails them to the Gallup headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. The data is processed and the results, based on a sample of 1500 persons, are released to the news media. From start to finish a poll takes roughly eight days--with the exception of the final one, published the day before elections, which is processed more hurriedly...
...Harvard Draft Union will present an open forum on ROTC at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall. Representatives from YPSL, SDS, HPC, HUC, and SFAC will present their organizations' proposals. A straw poll will follow the discussion...
Brian Dowling, who was named honorable All-American, was the only player from New England mentioned in the poll. Cross Country Goof Final Standings W L T PTS Brown 6 1 0 12 Pennsylvania 5 2 0 10 Yale 4 3 0 8 Cornell 3 4 0 6 Harvard 2 3 2 6 Columbia 2 4 1 5 Dartmouth 2 4 1 5 Princeton...
Take parietals, for another good example. This is the only case on record in which the Committee on Houses acted positively on an HUC proposal. Why? Not because of any respect for student body opinion, certainly. Just one year before the COH had completely ignored a college-wide poll which showed students unanimously supporting increased parietals. Actually, the COH's well-timed acquiescence was motivated by militant pressure tactics from radical student groups--a sleep-in was threatened. A second factor was the increasing absurdity of Harvard's parietal position as colleges like Wellesley instituted hours that were twice...