Griffin Peek
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Mrs. Lawson
History and science of polling
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In the United States we are known as
a country that everyone has the right to vote and a voice in the government. Polling
was a way that associates of companies or people running political campaigns
can see what most people want and what they support. Now a day’s polling is
changing, it originally started in newspapers and in magazines for the people
to see and then they can send in their vote or just so people will know whose
representing what. Yet now new websites like soctrative and Gallup are having
new ways that people can poll and learn about what is going on and who it doing
what.
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technology and our technology based
age is now using something that we as humans in the twenty first century rely
on, almost every day, the internet.
Gallup is a website that is named after a man
that was one of the first men to study the popular voting field. In 1936, George Gallup and his employees correctly
predicted Franklin Roosevelt’s win the presidential election. The new polling technique that he used was
called “sampling.” He did this by studying a small percentage of people, thus
giving them a better generalization of who was going to win. Gallup was a
pioneer in the polling industry and he helped it get to where it is to this day
and thus a web site about him.
Polling is much different than it was in the 19th
century. The way that interest groups want to see what the public knows or how
they feel about a certain topic. Through this they would put articles in
newspapers and magazines so that local audiences can show their preference and
how they feel about the subject. A good example is in 1828, the supporters of
Andrew Jackson had a poll and rallies and gatherings for Jackson’s supporters.
This was put through newspapers. But the science of polling was introduced when
manufactures start to put survey polls in the newspapers to see what people
think of their product. But starting in the 20th century opinion
polls start to become popular, and in newspapers and magazines they become
customary. But in the 21st century opinion polls are now starting to
advance with technology.
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In the 21st century we
are the century of technology. Today people rely on the internet for almost anything
and new websites such as Socrative and Gallup- make polling options very easy
for the participant and the representative for the subject of the poll.
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Another way that people are polling in this century is a
website called socrative, which is an online polling technique. A popular way that a group of people in the community is using it is teachers in the
classroom. Teachers are soon realizing that to get students to be more corporate and when they use the internet, not the usual when the teacher asks
the student to vote or how they feel about a subject. The answer is not
answered until they look around the room to see what there piers are voting for
so that they don’t seem like the odd one out of
the class, but they are answering the surveys and the questions to how they
feel. The teachers are realizing that when they incorporate technology into the
process then everything becomes anonymous and the feedback is more honest and
all around better data. This can apply to how polling is today. When you go to
a online poll it’s always anonymous or when you go to vote they have separate
spaces that each person can vote so that everyone has a honest say and that
they can speak their voice.
Polling has come a long way in the
many centuries that this country has let its occupants vote for its government,
and has a voice in the government. It first started form newspapers and
magazines trying to get the word out, to websites that have polls on them,
containing the voice of the political parties and manufactures that give you a
chance to voicing your opinion. To me the idea of art and science of polling
all started on how the representatives of political or manufactures can get the
world of the people and what they want.
Works Cited
ASCD. ASCD, n.d. Web. 2014.
<http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar14/vol71/num06/Using-Polling-Technologies-to-Close-Feedback-Gaps.aspx>.
This was one of the most helpful websites when it came to learning about
polling today and helped me understand that with the technology savvy world
that we live in today its easier for people of the younger age to get there
opinion in rather than the older age group only.
The Bulletin. the bulletin, n.d. Web. 2014.
<http://www.bendbulletin.com/news/1382389-151/the-art-and-science-of-the-opinion-poll>.
This web site contains how politicians are starting to use other ways to
express what they need to get across to the public. They are starting to use
cell phones or the internet to get the word out to the people.
Gallup. Gallup inc., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/101872/How-does-Gallup-Polling-work.aspx>.
Gallup is a website that has been in the political business for a long time is
one of the sources that many people use to see what is going on in the
government and which politicians is supporting which cause and also contains
some opinion polls.
Pearson. Pearson Education, n.d. Web. 2010.
<http://wps.ablongman.com/long_sobel_pto_1/40/10417/2666796.cw/content/index.html>.
The history of popular polls and how polling started in America. this was one
of the most helpful sources when it came to my research of the history and some
back ground of polling in early america.
People, Politics, and
Policy. Glenview: Pearson Education, 2011.
Print. Vol. 15 of Governemtn in America.
This was my only book source but it gave me a new look into the way that
polling was done and gave me a new knowledge on phone polling.
SAIM. society ofr industrial art and mathematics, n.d. Web. 2014.
<http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=270>. This was my way to learn
about election polling and how it works. With the various techniques that you
can poll and why groups do different techniques.
