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Thank you again for all of your advocacy and research. Last week, our school district announced a district-wide ban on cell phone use for all middle and high schools. Your book was linked as a reference in the initial survey sent to parents.

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In “These Truths: A History of the United States” by Jill Lepore, the Gallup Poll was made by by a White American Male in the Mid 1930s to measure American Public Opinion. The same systems are largely used today. 😅

“[George] Gallup liked to call public opinion measurement ‘a new field of journalism,’ ” Lepore writes. He believed he was taking the “pulse of democracy.” E. B. White, on the other hand, writes that “although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.” Though Lepore is careful to leave her own opining largely out of the narrative, it becomes clear that she rather agrees with White.

Excerpt from Ilana Masad @ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/18/america-doesnt-have-to-be-like-this/

“Gallup’s polls attempted to predict the outcomes of elections, but they were also meant to scientifically represent the opinions of the nation so elected officials could know what the people wanted. But representation was the woeful problem. Although 10 percent of American citizens in the thirties and forties were black, they made up less than 2 percent of survey groups—and only in the North, because Gallup didn’t bother to survey black people in the South, where a variety of methods prevented many from voting. This was selective representation at best. Plus, Gallup’s method implied that his participants already had opinions on the issues at hand, when often these takes were formed on the spot, spawned by the question, for the simple purpose of having a yes or no answer.”

So yes. This article tracks.

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All polls are reliable for getting the results that their funders funded.

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Excellent topic and great examples of how the results are questionable. To what extent are we as a nation directing policy based upon polls that are likely flawed? Thank you for bringing this to light.

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No. No it is not. Read "Everybody Lies".

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All I see when I step out my door in Ontario are youth that are pale with hunchbacks, and racoon eyes - symptoms of blue light toxicity and microwave (radiofrequency) exposure. Sunlight will help us counter this trend. Thank you for all your work!

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