Word: polling
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...provocative question, as we did in our Person of the Century poll(we are looking for "that person who, for better or worse, most influenced the course of history over the past 100 years"), and you can expect to get a provocative response. The excitement started immediately - and a clear leader emerged. Einstein? Gandhi? JFK? No, Mick Foley. The day after the poll launched, a robot attacked and cast thousands of votes for Foley, a professional wrestler. What is a robot, you ask? Robots, or "'bots," as we call them, are automatic voting programs that come into our web site...
...same topic. The computer's entry, "Self-Betrayal," was unremarkable; its first sentence, "Dave Striver loved the university--at least most of the time," seems to fail the "Call me Ishmael" test, and the protagonist's name is clumsily allegorical. In fact, the story came in last in a poll of visitors to the site; the literary field is for now safe from a deluge of machine-produced prose...
...Harvard remained No. 1 when the national poll came out last night. That was because New Hampshire fell at Northeastern on Sunday, 2-1. The Huskies (9-2-1, 6-2-1) replaced the Wildcats (6-2-0, 4-2-0) in the No. 2 spot in the new poll. With Dartmouth idle last weekend, the Huskies also moved into first place in the ECAC...
...Institute of Politics' "The Microsoft Case 101," Zittrain outlined the anti-Microsoft case for an audience that was generally convinced the software giant had participated in monopolistic practices, according to a poll taken at the start of the panel...
That's partly because these Democrats are convinced that the issue may help them retake control of the House of Representatives. In fact, an internal poll for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee conducted by Geoff Garin shows 75% of Americans supporting the Bill Clinton idea of extending Medicare coverage to prescription drugs. Even a top G.O.P. election official concedes, "The issue is killing...