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George Gallup
George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a statistically based survey sampled measure of public opinion.
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business · American statistician (1901–1984) · statistician · sociologist · mathematician · journalist · businessperson · social scientist · also George Gallup, Gallup, George Horace Gallup
Born 18 November 1901 · Died 26 July 1984 · Q315542
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1988· 1 entry
And their son, writer and pollster George Gallup Jr
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1984· 3 entries
Died 1984-07-26.
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Of a heart attack at his summer home in Tschingel ob Gunten, a village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland
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“I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone — the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.”
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1958· 1 entry
Gallup grouped all of his polling operations under what became The Gallup Organization
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1947· 1 entry
Launched the Gallup International Association, an international association of polling organizations
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1936· 1 entry
His new organization achieved national recognition by correctly predicting that Franklin Roosevelt would defeat Alf Landon in the U
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1932· 2 entries
To join the advertising agency of Young and Rubicam as director of research, serving as vice president there from 1937 to 1947
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When he did some for his mother-in-law, Ola Babcock Miller, a longshot candidate for Iowa Secretary of State
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1901· 1 entry
Born 1901-11-18.
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