Use the web links below to answer the questions. Get as far as you can in the lab today. The web quest is due Monday as homework.

1. Who was the Johnny Appleseed of polling?

2. What did Gallup predict in 1936?

3. As a teen Gallup earned money delivering milk...what did he do with the earnings?

4. What was the 'Iowa method'?

5. Who hired him as a research director in 1932?

6. What did Gallup tell Time magazine?

7. How did Gallup use polling to help Ola Miller?

8. What did Gallup suspect about the Literary Digest in 1936?

9. How come he was not impressed by the Literary Digest's sample size?

10. What is statistical sampling?

11. What is split-sample polling?

12. How did American's see polling differently after Gallup came along?

13. In what ways did the movie industry use Gallup? 

14. Why was Gallup wrong in 1948?

15. Why did Gallup think that polls were vital to a democracy?

16. Today how many countries use the Gallup Poll?

17. What did Frank Newport say about Gallup?

18. What did Gallup say about a president or any other political leader that paid attention to poll results? 

19. Check the Gallup Poll web site (see link below) - what is the current approval rating for President Obama?

20. What percentage of the country is engaged at work?