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Born in Jefferson, Iowa on November 18, 1901, George Gallup advised journalism and psychology, absorption on how to admeasurement readers’ absorption in bi-weekly and annual content. In 1935, he founded the American Institute of Accessible Assessment to scientifically admeasurement accessible opinions on capacity such as government spending, bent justice, and presidential candidates. Although he died in 1984, The Gallup Poll continues his bequest of aggravating to actuate and address the will of the bodies in an unbiased, absolute way. To bless his day of birth, we aggregate a account of some of the weirdest, funniest Gallup acclamation over the years.
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According to this Gallup poll, 75 percent of Americans accept at atomic one abstruse belief. Specifically, 41 percent accept in extrasensory acumen (ESP), 37 percent accept in apparitional houses, and 21 percent accept in witches. What about channeling spirits, you ability ask? Alone 9 percent of Americans accept that it’s accessible to approach a spirit so that it takes acting ascendancy of one's body. Interestingly, assertive in abstruse phenomena was about agnate beyond bodies of altered genders, races, ages, and apprenticeship levels.
In this poll, Gallup approved to actuate the acceptance of heliocentric adjoin geocentric views. While 79 percent of Americans accurately declared that the Earth revolves about the sun, 18 percent anticipate the sun revolves about the Earth. Three percent chose to abide indifferent, adage they had no assessment either way.
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Gallup aboriginal abstinent anti-Mormon affect aback in 1967, and it was still an affair in 2011, a year afore Mormon Mitt Romney ran for president. Approximately 22 percent of Americans said they would not vote for a Mormon presidential candidate, alike if that applicant belonged to their adopted political party. Strangely, Americans’ bent adjoin Mormons has remained abiding back the 1960s, admitting abbreviating bent adjoin African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and women.
This 2010 poll amusingly confirms the average that southerners are added religious than the blow of the country. Although 42 percent of all Americans appear abbey consistently (which Gallup defines as account or about weekly), there are ample variations based on geography. For example, 63 percent of bodies in Mississippi appear abbey regularly, followed by 58 percent in Alabama and 56 percent in South Carolina, Louisiana, and Utah. Rounding out the everyman levels of abbey attendance, on the added hand, were Vermont, area 23 percent of association appear abbey regularly, New Hampshire, at 26 percent, and Maine at 27 percent.
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Although 76 percent of Americans knew that the United States acquired ability from Great Britain as a aftereffect of the Revolutionary War, 24 percent weren’t so sure. Two percent anticipation the actual acknowledgment was France, 3 percent said a altered country (such as Mexico, China, or Russia), and 19 percent had no opinion. Certain groups of bodies who accede themselves patriotic, including men, earlier people, and white bodies (according to Gallup polls), were added acceptable to apperceive that America acquired its ability from Great Britain.
This Halloween-themed Gallup poll asked Americans about their habits and behavior on the aftermost day of October. Predictably, two-thirds of Americans appear that addition in their abode planned to accord bonbon to trick-or-treaters and added than three-quarters of parents with kids appear that their kids would abrasion a costume. Added surprisingly, 31 percent of American adults claimed to accept in ghosts, an access from 1978, back alone 11 percent of American adults accepted to a acceptance in ghosts.
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This contempo Gallup poll is funny in a sad way, as it sheds ablaze on the tragicomic activity of a millennial. In this poll, abundance is authentic as accepting purpose, amusing support, acquiescent finances, a able community, and acceptable concrete health. Sadly, alone 5 percent of alive millennials—defined as bodies built-in amid 1980 and 1996—were advancing in these bristles indicators of well-being. To adverse this abridgement of well-being, Gallup’s address recommends that managers advance work-life antithesis and advance their advice with millennial employees.
If you assume to feel added stress, sadness, anxiety, and affliction than anytime before, Gallup has the affidavit that it’s not all in your head. According to the company’s common abrogating acquaintance index, abrogating animosity such as stress, sadness, and acrimony accept added back 2007. Unsurprisingly, bodies active in war-torn, alarming genitalia of the word—Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, and Sierra Leone—reported the accomplished levels of abrogating emotions.
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