Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislative body, was exaggerated, but based on reality. Rocked by scandals involving sex and bribes, and widely assailed for accepting a pay raise without facing up to a vote on it, the post-Watergate Congress is in trouble with its constituents. In the most recent Harris survey of public attitudes toward the leaders of 10 national institutions, members of Congress ranked eighth in esteem (liked even less: corporation executives and labor bosses...
...Sociologist Lucy Sells, in a 1973 survey at Berkeley, discovered that 57% of male first-year students had taken four years of high school math, while only 8% of females had done so. As a result, 92% of freshmen women could major in only five out of 20 available fields, since calculus was a requirement for the other 15. Sells' charge: "Nobody told girls that they couldn't get jobs in the real world unless they knew math...
What does life look like to a child in elementary school? For once, someone has asked the children themselves-not just their parents. A nationwide survey of more than 2,200 seven-to eleven-year-olds, released last week by the private Foundation for Child Development, indicated that most children feel good about their lives, their families and just being themselves. But many are also afraid. More than two-thirds are scared that "someone bad" is skulking about their neighborhood, waiting to break into their homes. A quarter of the children are afraid that they will be attacked when they...
...will the data be used? Nicholas Zill, the research psychologist who directed the study for Temple University's Institute for Survey Research, said he hoped his report would give children a voice in influencing their own "physical and psychological well-being." One of his chief recommendations: stricter regulation in the "disaster area" of television...
Last year, Radcliffe's Office of Women's Education conducted a survey of other colleges and universities to ascertain the status of Women's Studies across the country. Compared to Harvard's few courses, the results appear to be remarkable: it seems that elsewhere, some schools are taking steps to develop serious women's studies programs. A brief look at a sampling of course titles from other schools may prove enlightening: Cornell, with one of the largest programs,offers courses in "Sex Roles and Linguistic Behavior," "Women, Race and Politics," "Working Women in Nine Countries," "Women Writers of Africa, Afro...