Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week a Gallup poll pointed up a major shift in U. S. opinion. A 1937 poll had reported that 64% of U. S. citizens thought it had been a mistake for the U. S. to go into World War I; only 28% thought not. To the same question last week, 42% thought that U. S. entrance into World War I had not been a mistake, 39% still believed that...
Commented Dr. George Gallup: "The shift that has taken place in American thinking may be an important factor in coming U. S. decisions regarding aid to Britain...
...accuracy of the Gallup poll can be checked periodically by the results of elections. The poll conducted by Defense cannot be so easily confirmed and is therefore subject to attack. Any poll which did not cover every Harvard student would be challenged by somebody. It is to be doubted that the Crimson would accept any result which did not conform to its impression of the facts. If the Crimson is sincere, if you are not opposing just for the sake of opposition, there is an easy way to find out if our poll is accurate. That is to conduct...
...asked are reprinted in the report, and this raises the serious consideration as to how prejudiced or unprejudiced the questions asked might be. The greatest difficulty encountered by any group with a definite thesis that tries to conduct an impartial poll, is that of asking non-leading questions. Mr. Gallup always, publishes the actual questions asked, to prove that they are unprejudiced. The editors of Defense could have strengthened their report considerably' by doing the same. Then, too, the general classifications of positions are far from clear: what place, for example, does "all necessary aid" occupy between "all material...
...League's newspaper, "Defense," in which the results of the poll are published today, calls the results proof of "the falsity of charges that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals, cynics, and pacifists." The poll was taken on the system of the Gallup researches into public opinion, questioning a cross-section of the students...