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This TIME Style & Design poll of 411 affluent Chinese respondents was conducted through personal interviews in June 2007 by GfK Roper at 54 different locations in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, including upscale shopping malls, boutiques, hotels, luxury-car dealerships and fitness clubs. Respondents made at least 15,000 yuan a month. The margin of error...
Percentage of global survey respondents who ranked crime and lawlessness among their top three personal concerns, according to a GfK Roper study. Other top worries included recession and unemployment, personal finances and education...
Sources: GfK Roper (2); Reuters (2); AP (2); LA Times...
...response to the 1929 publication of “Middletown”—a best-selling anthropological study of a Midwestern community—the search for the “average American” in the public opinion polls of George Gallup and Elmo Roper in the 1930s and 1940s, and the controversy stirred up by the publication of the Kinsey Reports in 1948 and 1953. Her analysis focuses on how the development of surveys and statistics affected the understanding of social science in the mainstream and gave Americans a yardstick to measure themselves with, different from...
...fascinating life. His father was a Nebraska congressman, and Baldridge went on to become head of Scovill, which makes fasteners for much of the world?s apparel. His biography notes: "Baldrige worked during his boyhood as a ranch hand and earned several awards as a professional team roper on the rodeo circuit. He was a Professional Rodeo Man of the Year in 1980 and was installed in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1984. Baldrige once appeared on the television game show To Tell the Truth pretending to be rodeo tie-down roping champion Dean Oliver...