Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Approximately 2400 students responded to Thursday's poll, most voting against the other alternatives listed. To the question "What is your response to elimination of seconds of meat?" 63 per cent circled the answer "intolerable," and 24 per cent, "acceptable only as a last resort...
Last week Pollster George Gallup all but threw up his hands. "Unless this situation changes markedly between now and November 8," he said in Chicago, "no poll has any scientific basis for making a prediction...
Gallup, who claims a 1.7% total error for his presidential predictions since 1948 (despite the fact that, with certain exceptions, his intrepid clipboard artists poll only 1,500 people in a nation of 181 million*), admitted that he would be lucky to come off with a 4% error this time. Reasons: 1) the religion issue "helps and hurts," 2) there is a marked lack of enthusiasm for either candidate, and 3) the popular vote, as polled so far is so close that a small change in either direction could mean an electoral landslide. Along with the familiar...
...Gallup uses a sample of 7,000 in his final pre-election poll...
Included in the report were results from a poll of students on the affiliation question and comparisons of the Harvard-Radcliffe situation with other paired colleges, such as Columbia-Barnard and Brown-Pembroke. The overwhelming majority of the student polled supported continuation of the present system...