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TAT (Page 3) PRIVATE POLL By FRITZ\Y0GELSANG When I was at the barber's recently a man came into the store, introduced himself politely, and asked those present for permission to ask them questions. He asked about all sorts of things. He wanted to know how often and how much meat was eaten, how much one's weekly salary arounted to, whether one shaved every day, when and against whom a new war was to be expected, whether women teachers should remain single, who had the greatest prospects of being elected President, and a great many other things.. The interrogator was a man who was employed by a concern which is. doing research on the attitude of the people and preparing statistics on this. The value of these official inquiries may be overestimated or underestimated, gained an important place in the life of America. Politicians especially lend an attentive ear to the voice of the. people. Hence election years are good times for institutes for research on public opinion. Many Congressnen even----by paying for it, naturally---ascertain their election prospects themselves. If the results are unfavorable, then naturally they will not be published. The average limit of mistakes in pre- dicting election results amounted to only 4%. It will, therefore, be quite interesting to follow the vacillations of popular opinion this year in the. newspapers according to the figures.. The number of agants which the firms are using for listening to. -adno suosaad ooo'os oo ooo'e wong yugnnn duanane ayo geyo os pouonnsanb aee sent a miniature picture of America. , The two best-known experts in the field of the voting are Messrs.\Gallup and,Roper.. Science too makes use of the methods of mass interrogation for its. purposes. Prof.yKinsey and his co-workers recently published a book on the sexual life of the American man, which is based on the answers of l2,000. persons. As experts assure us, the important and sensational results of this In the periodical/#Fortune", figures were published a few months ago which are to be reproduced partly here. The poll was concerned with the. following three questions:. ONIXOENTIAL LL