Essays on Polls

Internet Assignment – Locating Public Opinion Polls

Assignment #3: Public Opinion Polls The Gallup Organization What question did the pollster ask? “Based on what you have heard or read, how would you rate Donald Trump’s inauguration speech? Would you rate it as excellent, good, just okay, poor or terrible?” .

When was the poll conducted?

Give the percentage breakdowns for the response to the question you wrote above. Excellent 29% Good 24% Just okay 22% Poor 6% Terrible 14% Describe the poll’s methodology: Telephone interviews were conducted on January 20, 2017 using a random sample of 508 people over eighteen years of age living in the United States. The margin ...

“If it has ‘science’ in its name, it ain’t (Minnick).” Those words were said to this writer by the smartest person he ever knew personally, a man with PhDs in Mathematics and Physics, a true scientist. He went on to explain that science, if it is science, can be reduced to mathematics and then can predict. “Science can generate electricity or flatten cities,” he said. The problem, of course, is that whenever one deals with the “soft sciences,” political science or economics (the dismal science) or sociology or history or any of the disciplines that are housed in ...

Social Action Theory

Anderson and Meyer (1988) use the following terminology to understand the social action theory: “For most of the history of research in mass communication, content has been seen as a silver bullet shot from a media gun to penetrate a hapless audience” (Anderson and Meyer 48). Media affects can be related to the social action theory by evaluating the negative effects of playing violent video games on children. A television show by CBS News further places emphasis on the role video games has on making children aggressive. The show clarifies that independent studies have proven that there is a ...

Introduction

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was launched in April 2015. She notified the public on her campaign website by stating that “I’m running for president”. She proclaimed herself a champion and stated that “Everyday Americans need a champion”. The mission statement provided by Clinton’s campaign is “We are a team, and this is about Americans”. Heading her campaign as chair is John Podesta, a former Whitehouse Chief of Staff. Campaign manager, Robby Mook, has been a long time Democratic player. Chief strategist and pollster is Joel Benenson who will have support from two other pollsters, John Anzalone ...

The reason for carrying out this work is to identify the problem of credit sales fraud with our principal focus falling on Milwaukee Marriot Downtown. The primary objectives of this chapter are to come up with a descriptive survey method to collect data from business enterprises in Milwaukee Marriot Downtown regarding the issue of credit sales fraud, describe the sample selection, explain the procedures utilized in designing data collection instruments, and lastly identifying the statistical methods for analyzing the collected data. For this research, the best descriptive research method to use to gather information is the questionnaires. The polls ...

The subject of women in combat is one of the least studied in the history and the literature. This topic is very important in the context of gender and many other issues. For many years, researchers have been interested in the issues of women as the part of one of the most terrible events in the world. As it is known from the ancient times, war is a men's business, and nobody have doubted in this fact. Moreover, women always acted as passive victims, i.e. "damsels in distress", having secondary importance at war. However, many researchers, who have studied ...

Introduction to Law Enforcement

Introduction to Law Enforcement 1) What do Americans want from police? Police officers are seen as peace keepers as well as enforcers of the law, and as such are continually at odds with various elements in their communities. A certain level of corruption will always exist in any society, though police officers are intended to keep it to a minimum at the very least. What people tend to want from the police is the protection that law enforcement is bound and sworn to give in regards to their community. In several polls many people have gone on to claim ...

Abstract

The research was conducted to find out the opinion of the Inhabitants of the outside islands on the negligence by the government which is investing all the BIV income in the capital city, Tortola. The purpose of the investigation is to ensure that the methodology for the study is justified. A qualitative descriptive methodology was used to conduct the study. The study involves a survey which is conducted with the use of a questionnaire. The Questionnaire is a more confidential method of data collection and is less costly as compared to other methods of data collection. The questionnaire is ...

Jill Stein is an American activist that is a nominee for the Green Party nomination in the 2016 elections Stein has had previous stints as nominee for the Green Party’s appointment for an American President in 2012 (The Voter's Self Defense System 1). Jill has also challenged to be a governor of Massachusetts in the year 2002 and 2010.

Among her presidential standpoints is that one supports the cancellation of student debts.

Creation of wage jobs is another of her core campaign strategies that would be a transit point to a more green economy. Jill’s international relations policy is that of promotion of more relations between countries through cooperation with ...

.GSS 2014 Statistical Analysis: Written up Assignment

Introduction

The GSS 2014 has been established with the view to generate ongoing research data on demographics of the country for social welfare and decision making. The General Social Surveys (GSS) have been conducted by the National Opinion Research Centre (NORC) annually since 1972, except for the years 1979, 1981, and 1992, and biennially beginning in 1994. The GSS surveys are supposed to be part of a social indicator research, applying questionnaire items and wording in order to facilitate time-trend studies. There are a total of 3,842 cases in the data set. ...

The Fair Sentencing Act

On August 3, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, for the first time in the History of the U.S (Grindle, 2010). This law was a response to the then claims of racial biases of the law in convicting drug dealers. This Act established new quantity thresholds, which were meant to trigger statutory mandatory minimum and maximum penalties for offenses related to cocaine. By so doing, this law amended the Controlled Substance Act and the controlled import and export of substance. This new law saw to it that the quantities of cocaine that ...

Understanding of the political system of Japan is critical for understanding the major interests of this country and forecasting its behavior. Since the 1950s until the early 2000s the Liberal Democratic Party remained in power. But in the 21st century, it was temporarily ousted by other political forces. In 2012, it regained power and is ruling party in Japan now. What are the reasons behind the LDP’s domination? I will try to explain it not going deep into history but illustrating the most recent developments in Japanese policy. The result of the Japanese parliamentary elections of 16 December ...

The Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act dubbed ObamaCare is a health care reform in the US aimed at expanding and improving citizens’ access to healthcare and insurance. The act was signed into law by President on 23rd March 2010, but most provisions came into effect in 2014 (ObamaCare Facts, 2015). The specific objective of the law include things such as ; offering Americans more benefits and protections, allow for purchase of health insurance in a marketplace; expanding Medicare for the aged and disabled; improving Medicaid coverage in more states; increasing employer coverage; making it mandatory for people to have ...

Political culture is a component of the general culture, a cumulative indicator of political experience, a level of political knowledge and feelings, examples of behavior and functioning of political subjects, the integrated characteristic of a political way of life of the country, a class, the nation, social group of individuals. A feature of political culture is that it makes not policy or political process, but their understanding, an explanation. In the political sphere often the importance is gained not only by real actions and measures of the state but also, by the way they are estimated and perceived in ...

Abstract

This paper describes polls and survey methods using the examples of three types of polls, namely entertainment survey, political survey and general survey. The paper will also briefly describe the business application of polls and surveys. In conclusion the paper will present a small-scale survey devised by the author to showcase understanding of the subject.

Introduction

This paper presents a lecture on that describes how entertainment polls or surveys are conducted. For the purposes of this paper I have chosen the article from PR Newswire dated 4th April 2016 which describes a consumer survey conducted by E-Score that determined who ...

INTRODUCTION

There are various means that the population of any country can take to become active participants in society. In the realm of democratic government, citizens’ participation at the polls is typically considered the cornerstone of democracy. Explain what democracy entails The United States is widely known to be lagging in the rate at which its citizens participate at the polls. In comparison to most other developed countries, only 53.6% of the voting-age population in the United States participated in the 2012 elections. Indicate the examples of the developed countries. This number is skewed from representing the number of registered, ...

Gun control has always been a conscientious and hotly debated topic in the United States of America. Either side of the debate are the gun control and the firearm rights activists, each giving their own interpretation of the law and asking the government to intervene in the matter. The right to bear arms is a constitutionally granted freedom to the citizens of the country and can be found in the second amendment to the constitution. The government is also responsible for the safety of the citizens and prevent them against crime. The cause for the debate stems from the ...

Predictions of poll outcomes have existed for over six decades, with little or no cases of wrong predictions, as political trends in the United States were pretty similar (Laden, 2015). Wrong predictions began to manifest in 2016 poll predictions, as unlikely candidates are gaining popularity and liking, contrary to the previous forecasts. Leading poll predicting firms led by Nate Silver have expressed their surprise at the turn up of events. Nate Silver has been predicting poles for a long time, and he is known to have correctly predicted Obama’s win in the previous polls (Jones, 2002). Wrong poles ...

One definition of conservatism states that a situation tends to remain static unless acted upon by a strong external force. In the world of major college football, tradition and fiscal conservatism have combined for years to preserve a system by which a tight circle of resource-rich powerhouse programs hold sway from year to year. The major bowl games, the nearly exclusive preserve of the nation’s football elite, serve as NCAA football’s branding identity but do little to determine a quantifiable national champion. A powerful cabal of athletic directors, commissioners, university presidents and other officials maintain the sanctity of the lucrative bowl system. In ...

Sociology research methods are very important as they allow sociologists to have a better understanding of sociological phenomena and to answer various questions regarding social issues. The ultimate aim of this paper is to explain how the topic ‘Effects of Home Work on Students Today’ can be investigated using sociology methods of research. A research method will be chosen and the research design will also be described in detail. The most suitable method for studying the question will be identified and explained. Possible weaknesses in the chosen method will be enumerated and explained. Key terminologies such as constructs and indicators, ...