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...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...
...believe that the results of our poll bear out the conclusion that "Harvard feels British victory essential to national defense." Here are the facts: 37 per cent of the total number who voted checked the statement which read "Hitler must go even if we have to fight." 49.3 per cent checked, "British victory is essential to our national defense." Leaving out duplications we find that slightly over 60 per cent took at least the weaker of the two positions. If you take either of these stands, you necessarily accept the policy of all necessary...
...Feels British Victory Essential for National Defense." This statement is meant to afford great solace to old grads who have come to fear that "Harvard is a hotbed of radicals, cynics, and pacifists." The headline is ostensibly the conclusion the Editors of Defense have reached after conducting a scientific poll of undergraduate opinion, but the discerning reader may not be able to reach the same conclusion as has the optimistic staff of Defense...
This is not the only part of the Defense poll which is distinctly suspect. Very few of the actual questions 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...
...editors when questioned refused to reveal what these super-scientific methods might be. If the report as a whole had shown any startling devotion to truth, this hedging might perhaps be overlooked; but when it is coupled with other examples of distortion, it assumes greater importance. If this poll is any sort of a weapon, it is a boomerang. And if all those opposed to American intervention in the present war are "radicals, cynics, and pacifists," then the editors of Defense have laid an egg in their own hen-house...