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The Gallup poll (http://www.gallup.com) is one of the best-known national polls in the United States. To learn more about this poll, scroll down the page and link to "How Gallup Polls Are Conducted," and answer the following questions:
  1. What have survey researchers discovered about the confidence of Americans in polls?
  2. What is the objective of the national Gallup polls?
  3. What is the difference in the way that the earliest polls selected respondents and the way respondents are selected now to participate in the polls?
  4. What is one of the oldest question wordings that Gallup has had in its inventory? When was this question first asked?
  5. Click your Refresh or Back button. Link to the lead story. Briefly, what is it about? What do U.S. citizens think about the issue?
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The Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/) has been accumulating historical and up-to-date information on the growth and trends in Internet usage since 1994. The institute collects its data by conducting surveys on the Internet. To learn more about its surveys, link to "GVU's Tenth WWW User Survey (October 1998)." Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and answer the following question:
  1. How many users participated in this survey?

Click on your Refresh or Back button. Link to "General Demographics" and select "Age."

  1. Which age group had the greatest percentage of respondents to the survey?
  2. Why do you think this age group had the greatest number of respondents?

Click your Refresh or Back button again, and link to "Gender."

  1. What percent of the respondents were male?
  2. Why do you think so many more males than females responded to the survey?

Click your Refresh or Back button one more time and link to "Race."

  1. About what percent of the respondents were white?
  2. What explanation can you offer for the under-representation of Internet usage among minority and ethnic groups?





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