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...pollsters switched to the more accurate "random sample," which relies on the theory of probability and owes its development to Galileo, Pascal, some expert gamblers and the U.S. Census Bureau. Probability theory says that if a jar contains 1,000,000 beans-half black and half white-and somebody scoops up 100 of them, he will almost always draw half black and half white, within a 3% margin of error. Gallup views the nation as a big bowl of beans. On a strictly random basis, he picks 300 sections of the U.S. and selects five voters in each section. Then...
...avenues?clean by Calcutta's standards?bop to the stride of lively men and women in multihued clothing; the tawdry tenements of Chicago's South Side are forested with TV antennas. Even in Mississippi's Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest census eight out of every ten families live below the poverty line, 37% of the households own washing machines, 48% own cars, and 52% own television sets. In the Los Angeles district of Watts, California's most notorious Slough of Despond, the orderly rows of one-story, stucco houses reflect...
...long since been pushed off the highways, and a decade ago it looked as if he might have lost out on the backways as well. There were 4,500,000 horses in the country in 1959, the year that the U.S. Department of Agriculture took its last horse census and decided to discontinue counting heads...
Head of the Army quartermaster corps in World War I, he liked to urge fellow executives to "Charge!" Enamored of detail, he pored over endless reams of census and population statistics while gobbling caramels - cellophane wrappers and all. Out of all that charging and chewing came a discovery that still shapes U.S. merchandising. "Imagine it," Wood recalls. "The country was filled with talk about the automobile. Henry Ford was making shopping mobile; yet not a single retailer saw what the impact would be." Except for Retailer Wood, that is. Reckoning future population trends on the basis of his own census...
...attempting to discern the validity of these two alternatives, I undertook to answer two questions: How do the people of Cambridge feel about birth control and family planning? What is the role of the physician in giving birth control information? For my inquiry I chose census tract 15, bounded by Western Ave., Putnam Ave. and Green Street. This area ranks slightly high (about the 66th percentile) in social disorder and inadequate living conditions. Students and professors are widely dispersed among lower and middle class families, 37 per cent non-white and 14 per cent foreign-born. The sample...