Also noteworthy - if you are a "minority" (what counts?) apparently it doesn't matter if you work or are married.

Yuck.

Banner book from survey, Category "Women Typology", subcategories: Minority Young Sngl Old Sngl Work/married (further subdivided into Prot and Cath) Housewives Ladies

Old typologies are always weird, and categorization of women even more so, but ladies? These are married, non-working women who aren't housewives, so I'm guessing they mean ladies who lunch? Housewives with a full staff?

thank you!

Oh, interesting. New to me, and googling didn't help. And definitely an odd position...

Everyone knows the terms hawks and doves re: military attitudes. I learned today that some Kennedy School types coined "owls" in the 80s for a center position. But has anyone ever heard of "gulls"? Found in a 1980s banner point. Curious if it was just for the 4 way split or really used.

Survey codebook: Now, lets talk about something different . I am going to read you the names of some churches and denominations. As I read each name, tell me whether you have never heard of this church, heard the name only, or heard of it and know something about it. #{SCREEN QM1} QM1. Catholic Never heard of church Heard name only Heard name and know something about it

This survey asked about gambling, then what a medical technician does, then which UHaul logo respondents had seen, and then this doozy, have you ever heard of the Catholic church?

Related: if someone is doing research about changing attitudes about gambling (which given all that's going on with sports gambling and such, I hope someone is), I've got some nice 1980s baselines for you, hit me up.

As one does....

One of the cool things about processing a collection of old polling data is that one survey can be a deep dive into American attitudes about trade and protectionism and the next one about agreement with the statement "Las Vegas is the American way to play."

People focusing on the negatives here, but think how much help these recordings will be to therapists in the future

Pancreatic cancer killed a dear friend of mine when she was in her early fifties. Not much more than a year from diagnosis until she was gone. A cruel and terrible disease, this news is amazing.

Well, it happened. For the first time, the top result in my Google search was from Grokipedia. Or Grokopedia. I don’t care.

I didn’t click on it, but I could tell from the preview it was very wrong. Had merged the bios of two unrelated people with the same name.

Survey result: Next, nuclear weapons should be used if the Chinese Communists send large numbers of troops into the fighting. Do you agree or disagree? 46% agree, 41% disagree, 13% no opinion, Dec 2-7, 1965, 1114 national adults

I love being able to add new toplines to the database from old surveys, particularly national polls on big issues. New 1965 CBS/ORC area-probability survey on Vietnam.

I'm always stunned how willing people are to use nukes.

yes! 100%

Me, too. And I love movies from the 30s to the 70s, but the TV and movies from the 80s and 90s have not held up well for me. Maybe I just find the ignorance less forgivable. Or the cheesiness less fun.

And come in wide.

Demi-gods? What is this nonsense?

Also, there is only one for whom a single name is sufficient, and that’s because his name is unusual and he’s constantly seeking attention.

I can offer one (1) drink of choice at AAPOR to anyone who has any background about the Moynihan senate election polls of 1976. Like who actually fielded them. "Moynihan Surveys" my ass.

The programmers I work with love it. I also like it for mapping text to a set of fixed fields based on fuzzy rules - cases where the formatting varies, so there needs to be flexibility. Pattern recognition despite noise.

I hate it for research, writing, art, analysis, etc.

Since I’m always interested in polling on superstition, I would like to do a trend series refielded with each return of Halley’s comet.

Ariel posed a brilliant question: which pre-polling event do you wish you could poll? Philip said the assassination of Julius Caesar, which Nathaniel was also considering, of all the possible events in the history of the world. I don't know about Ariel, but that wouldn't be in my top 100.

Chart from YouGov showing that American men think about the Roman Empire more often than women, with 8% say every or most days and 20% once a week or once a month, versus 1% and 13% of women.

Fun event yesterday with @pbump.com @aedwardslevy.bsky.social & @baseballot.bsky.social

Sure, they said lots of interesting things about journalism around polling, but more importantly, they validated this finding!

Confession: the first time I saw "brushfire" used that way was on folder labels for a bunch of California polls, and I just assumed the polls were literally about wildfires.

Is your son Haruki Murakami?

Table of results for a “Social Democrat Quickie” 1984

Today in “old polling jargon that hasn’t aged well”

I went to high school with these people, they have always sucked

No, a US company - I hadn't looked at their methodology in years.

yes - there is a supplemental online poll (presumably opt-in) for those crazy young 'uns without landlines (everybody)