Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly, one of the sentences leaped out from the page and struck me right across my complacent face. "In a survey at Harvard five years ago 93 percent of male students said that if 'they had the chance and were sure they would not get caught, they would consider forcing a woman to have sex without her consent,'" it said. I thought, no, it's not possible. That figure must be a typo! Probably the real percentage is only 73, or 43, or 13 percent. Then I thought, well, surveys are always questionable. Probably a lot of those guys were...
...only concur with the instincts of Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, who called for this week's survey. Now is a critical time to assess the work performed by UHS. The spread of AIDS requires careful monitoring of UHS practices and the effectiveness of its educational efforts...
...which oversees the Census Bureau, explains, the "point was that the Census Bureau would be open to the accusation that it was manipulating figures. Also, no one was sure if [the new technique] would be operational by 1990. Some people say it's not possible to take an accurate survey of 300,000 after the 1990 census and to give it to the president, according...
...same Michigan survey revealed that 92% of high school seniors have tried booze at least once, two-thirds had taken a drink within a month of the study, and more than a third had got ripsnorting drunk within the previous two weeks. Only 26%, by comparison, believed daily drinking would threaten their health or safety -- despite ample evidence that alcohol is implicated in the majority of teenage car crashes, as well as many suicides and murders. Many states have responded by raising the drinking age to 21. Meanwhile, a growing number of parents, faced with the reality that good kids...
Kennedy's study is actually two books in one. The subtitle -- "Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000" -- accurately describes the , bulk of the contents: a sweeping survey of the shifting balance of power over five centuries. The book could easily serve as an introductory history text for very bright undergraduates. But Kennedy is not content to end his story in the present. His final chapter, "To the 21st Century," ventures to predict which nations will prosper and decline in the near future. Astrologers do this sort of thing all the time; when a respected historian tries...