Word: polling
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David Van Biema did a wonderful job of writing "Does Heaven Exist?" [RELIGION, March 24]. Yet the impact is lost when you include a chart of a telephone poll that purports to tell readers what America thinks. This is surveyspeak, polltalk at its most ridiculous. If there are 250 million people in the U.S., your polltakers reached 0.000407% of the population. To permit such balderdash when dealing with heaven and hell, you risk a lot. JOHN VAN DOORN New York City...
...exploded just moments after liftoff. A mood of solemnity hung over Grafflin Elementary School that afternoon and it lingered for several days. Parents and teachers related how they had learned of the Kennedy assassination in a similar fashion. Sometime later that year, a current events-minded teacher took a poll, and my classmates voted the Challenger incident to be the most important news story...
Students are sometimes inconsistent in expressing their demands, Mayer said. Three months ago, he related, a student poll found that students wanted to get rid of Diet Pepsi. After asking students to confirm their choice, Middlebury found that "we got 10 times more responses, saying...
...they are stalking Apple Computer. The attraction: Apple's interface, which promises to open the Net to millions of surfers. McNealy flirted with buying Apple last spring; Jobs recently rejoined the firm in an "advisory role"; and last week Ellison asked in a Web-based poll if he should launch a takeover bid. The results--inconclusive--did validate one assumption about these three kings: ambition doesn't end at the first billion...
Nevertheless, I am optimistic. In Oregon our opponents are losing steam. A recent poll demonstrated that 77 percent of Oregonians think that it is unfair for a person to lose a job because of his or her sexual orientation. Our message is getting...