Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indicators of politics and social trends. These are based on responses over a period of time to a set of related questions. One such indicator, for example, is economic stress, and it is clearly rising. Others are conservatism and social resentment; more will emerge in the future. The survey deals with matters that can never be as concretely measured as economic factors, such as the G.N.P. or the unemployment rate; but shifts in our indicators, we think, can be taken as significant barometer readings of the changing social-political climate. After Watergate, and as the 1976 elections approach, America...
...burst of rabid optimism common to their species, the Stateside distributors of this perishable French farce report that the movie contains "1,500 separate gags." How did such a statistic turn up? Did 20th Century-Fox survey theaters in France, where The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob has been doing the kind of business that virtually subsidizes an entire industry? Maybe the director supplied the eager exhibitors with a laugh count made on the metric system and an error was made in the conversion. Maybe something was lost in the translation...
...survey confirmed the widespread belief that the U.S. political axis now tilts toward the right, but only slightly. Some 29% of those polled called themselves conservatives. Another 23% did not use that label but shared essentially the same views as those who think of themselves as conservative. They can be considered to be moderates who lean conservative...
...information in the accompanying story came from two separate studies. The first, in late April and early May, was based on a national probability sample of 1,238 personal interviews; the second, in mid-July, on a matched probability sample of 1,040 interviews. Results for each individual survey have an error factor of plus or minus 3%. In the estimation of trends from one survey to the next, the error factor is plus or minus 4%. The first report includes five indicators...
Such advice to the sexlorn might arouse little more than a smirk from U.S. and Western European readers accustomed to more sophisticated counsel. The Russians, however, are virtually panting for the suggestions, which appear in an astonishingly frank sex survey sponsored by the puritanical Soviet government. Female Sexual Pathology, a 189-page paperback illustrated with a handful of blurry photographs of lesbians and transvestites, sold out in its first few days in Soviet bookstores and is currently the hottest-selling item on the Moscow black market, where curious Communists are shelling out more than 50 times the book...