George Gallup
American statistician
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George Gallup's Degrees
- Bachelors Journalism University of Iowa
- Masters Journalism University of Iowa
- PhD Psychology University of Iowa
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion. Life and career Gallup was born in Jefferson, Iowa, the son of Nettie Quella and George Henry Gallup, a dairy farmer. As a teen, George Jr., known then as "Ted", would deliver milk and used his salary to start a newspaper at the high school, where he also played football. His higher education took place at the University of Iowa, where he was a football player, a member of the Iowa Beta chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and editor of The Daily Iowan, an independent newspaper which serves the university campus. He earned his B.A. in 1923, his M.A. in 1925 and his Ph.D. in 1928.
George Gallup's Published Works
Published Works
- The Gallup Poll; Public Opinion, 1935-1971 (1972) (505)
- Of Global Concern: Results of the Health of the Planet Survey. (1993) (495)
- The Gallup poll : public opinion (1972) (442)
- The Gallup poll : public opinion (1972) (442)
- The 16th Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools. (1980) (331)
- Religion in America (1985) (260)
- Varieties of Prayer: A Survey Report (1991) (213)
- The People's Religion: American Faith in the 90's (1989) (177)
- A Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Epilepsy in 1974 With an Indication of Trends Over the Past Twenty‐Five Years (1965) (175)
- A Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Epilepsy in 1979 with an Indication of Trends over the Past Thirty Years (1980) (152)
- Human Needs and Satisfactions A Global Survey (1976) (116)
- Verbal Intelligence of the American Adult (1944) (90)
- Adventures in immortality (1984) (89)
- The Pulse of Democracy: The Public-Opinion Poll and How It Works (1968) (89)
- The Gallup international public opinion polls : Great Britain, 1937-1975 (1976) (81)
- The Eleventh Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools. (1979) (61)
- Seventh Annual Gallup Poll of Public Attitudes Toward Education. (1972) (54)
- Ninth Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools. (1976) (54)
- The pulse of democracy (1940) (53)
- Preferences and practices of Americans and their physicians in antihypertensive therapy. (1986) (48)
- A Guide to Public Opinion Polls. (1944) (43)
- Religion in America, 1950 to the present (1979) (43)
- The Health of the Planet Survey: a preliminary report on attitudes on the environment and economic growth measured by surveys of citizens in 22 nations to date. (1992) (40)
- The Third Annual Survey of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools. 1971. (1971) (33)
- The sophisticated poll watcher's guide (1972) (33)
- IS THERE A BANDWAGON VOTE (1940) (31)
- The American Catholic People: Their Beliefs, Practices, and Values (1987) (30)
- The Gallup international public opinion polls : France, 1939, 1944-1975 (1976) (25)
- AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION—SURVEYS, 1935–38 (1938) (21)
- 100 questions and answers : religion in America (1989) (21)
- The search for America's faith (1980) (20)
- Of Books and Reading. (1956) (18)
- The Changing Climate for Public Opinion Research (1957) (17)
- Testing Public Opinion (1938) (16)
- Gallup Polls of Attitudes Toward Education, 1969-1984. A Topical Summary. (1984) (15)
- Public Opinion In A Democracy (1939) (15)
- A Scientific Method for Determining Reader-Interest (1930) (15)
- How the Nation Views the Public Schools. A Study of the Public Schools of the United States. (1969) (14)
- The Public's Attitude Toward the Public Schools. Second Annual Survey. (1970) (14)
- The secrets of long life (1960) (13)
- INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION TOWARD THE ENVIRONMENT (1993) (13)
- The Absorption Rate of Ideas (1955) (12)
- How Labor Votes (1951) (12)
- Question Wording in Public Opinion Polls (1941) (11)
- A Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Epilepsy in 1964 With an Indication of Trends over the Past Fifteen Years (1965) (11)
- THE PUBLIC OPINION REFERENDUM (1971) (10)
- Government and the Sampling Referendum (1938) (10)
- The unchurched American -- 10 years later (1988) (7)
- Politics & the press (1970) (7)
- Taking Education's Pulse: The 13th Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools. (1981) (7)
- The international Gallup Polls : public opinion (1980) (6)
- An objective method for determining reader interest in the content of a newspaper (6)
- What the People Think About Their Schools: Gallup's Findings. Fastback Series No. 94. (1977) (4)
- Forecast 2000: George Gallup, Jr., Predicts the Future of America (1984) (4)
- Who do Americans say that I am (1986) (4)
- Gallup polls of attitudes toward education 1969-1973 (1973) (4)
- The Public Looks at the Public Schools. (1975) (3)
- Should Public Opinion Polls Make Election Forecasts? (1949) (2)
- Gallup Opinion Index, Special Report on Religion (1969) (2)
- Changes in the Newspaper during the Next 20 Years (1955) (2)
- SURVEY RESEARCH: CURRENT PROBLEMS AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES (1988) (2)
- REPORTING PUBLIC OPINION IN FIVE NATIONS (1942) (2)
- Public Schools: Their Problems, Their Future (1975) (2)
- America wants to know : the issues & the answers of the eighties (1983) (1)
- Forecast for America. (1985) (1)
- I Asked 100,000 People What They Read in Newspapers (1938) (1)
- Public opinion in our cities (1938) (1)
- Attaining a Right Understanding (1966) (1)
- Covering Ideas—A New Field of Journalism (1980) (1)
- The political Almanac 1952 (1952) (1)
- The Great American Success Story: Factors That Affect Achievement (1986) (1)
- The Computer-Controlled Society (1965) (0)
- What Is Public Opinion? (1958) (0)
- American Voting Behavior . Eugene Burdick and Arthur J. Brodbeck, Eds. Free Press, Glencoe, Ill., 1959. iv + 475 pp. $7.50. (1959) (0)
- Leaders in Marketing (1962) (0)
- The Public Against the Historians: The Gallup Poll, 1935-1971.@@@The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935-1971. Vol. 1, 1935-1948. Vol. 2, 1949-1958. Vol. 3, 1959-1971. (1976) (0)
- Citizen action: Our greatest asset (1974) (0)
- Are We Living Up to the Promise of America (1974) (0)
- Howard Crawley Memorial Lectures (1939) (0)
- Interview with Humanity (Human Needs and Satisfactions) (1976) (0)
- Pollsters, not prophets (1976) (0)
- Gallup Assesses Teen-agers' Mood. (1986) (0)
- Forecast 2000 : predictions of America's future (1987) (0)
- Impact: A New Method for Evaluating Advertising * (1950) (0)
- Editors for congress (1958) (0)
- Book Review: Advertising Handbook (1930) (0)
- Citizen Action for Finer Cities (1956) (0)
- Study of the U.S. Press (1963) (0)
- High-School Reporting (1931) (0)
- One war we are losing (1951) (0)
- What Shall We do about High School Journalism? (1928) (0)
- A Study in the Selection of Salespeople for Killians' Department Store, Cedar Rapid, Iowa (0)
- Polling in the Year 2000 (1981) (0)
- A new campaign plan (1956) (0)
- Views on abortion show little change: the Gallup poll. (1980) (0)
- Abortion attitudes about same as in '75. (1978) (0)
- Book Reviews: American Voting Behavior (1959) (0)
- POLLS OF PUBLIC OPINION AND WHAT THEY SHOW (1939) (0)
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