#survey

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

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A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#century #digest #mid #psychology #state

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#behavior #engaged #everyone #human #human behavior

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#college #college students #drink #least #month

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#child #concluded #conducted #involved #many

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#business #decision #demographic #even #every

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#eyes #feet #his #man #planted