Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fear success and therefore there must be something wrong with the findings, and (2) that the findings could be interpreted as being damaging to women and therefore should not have been released for publication. I'm afraid these opinions rather garbled the account of what the survey findings were and what I think they mean...
...feel kind of sorry, because she comes across as a daringly imaginative, unusual and likeable person. Lurie's memoir presents a well-rounded survey of Lang's life that runs through about a third of the book. It's a suspicious way to begin, as though you are more apt to develop an interest in Lang's writing if you've been enticed by her experiences. There is something intriguing about a person whose earliest love affair might have started with seduction by a Red Sox player in the front seat of a red convertible that his fans gave...
...Victoria Steinberg's generally conscientious effort to report my overly long and complicated discussion of the Ladd-Lipset survey of teaching and research by faculty members in American colleges and universities (Oct. 18), one qualification I made was omitted. I am quoted correctly as saying that"...a true scholar does not necessarily have to publish anything," but I also declared that a faculty member needed an audience of peers as well as an audience of students in order to stay alive intellectually, giving such illustrations as artistic production, consulting, and other extra-mural activities. Nor did I criticize the Ladd...
Less than three weeks after the first attempt to kill the President, students in my University of Florida "Power and Violence" course conducted a telephone survey of 125 randomly selected residents of Gainesville, a college town with a higher than average educational level. The results indicated that only 57.6% of the people interviewed could identify Sara Jane Moore. While 73.6% of the sample knew who "Squeaky" Fromme is, a mere 26.4% had heard of or could recall the cause Fromme claimed to be exposing...
Some time after his return to the U.S., Wallace plans to announce his candidacy for the presidency. A Louis Harris survey last summer gave him 14% of the vote among Democrats and independents; Hubert Humphrey followed with 12%, and Henry Jackson and Edmund Muskie with 10% each. But the same poll showed that more Democrats and independents-39%-would vote against Wallace than against any other candidate...