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Polls, Polls, and More Polls: An Evaluation of How Public Opinion Polls Are Reported in Newspapers

The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 2002
This article examines the information the news media provide about public opinion polls. To do this, the study uses standards established by the American Association for Public Opinion Researchers and the National Council on Public Polls to evaluate how polls about the presidential election were reported in four major national newspapers and four ...
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Polling as ritual

Journal of Communication, 1999
In contemporary U.S. politics, the practice of consulting the latest poll has become a ritual like consulting the oracle was to the Ancient Greeks. In this esay, the author argues that polling is not just an instrumental means to manipulate or reflect public attitudes, but is also a cultural form that sustains and affirms deeply held founding ...
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Polling and Control of Polling

2001
We return to the scheduling problems discussed in Section 1.3. Consider a queueing system with several queues and a single server. An original form of the problem arose in the management of time-shared computer systems, where there was a single processor and many users, each of which created a sequence of jobs at random and competed for the attention ...
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Public Polls and Private Polls

1971
The public opinion polls had already claimed a major role in any account of the 1970 election even before they got the answer wrong. As the number of regularly published polls had increased in the later 1960s, so had the attention accorded them; their influence permeated all reports about the party battle.
David Butler, Michael Pinto-Duschinsky
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Evaluating Polls With Poll Data

Public Opinion Quarterly, 1986
The Roper Organization conducted two surveys in 1985 on the public's attitudes toward polls. One was a 10-question interview and the other was a single question asking for reactions to letters both critical and laudatory of polls. Results of the two surveys, which were asked of national samples of adults, indicate that although there is skepticism ...
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