Jean M Converse
Biographic Data
| ID | 93118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean M Converse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean M |
| FAMILY NAME | Converse |
| SIGNATURE | CONVERSE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Survey Research in the United States: Roots and Emergence 1890-1960
Hardly an American today escapes being polled or surveyed or sampled. In this illuminating history, Jean Converse shows how survey research came to be perhaps the single most important development in twentieth-century social science. Everyone interested in survey methods and public opinion, including social scientists in many fi elds, will find this volume a major resource.Converse traces the beginnings of survey research in the practical worlds …
Surveying Social Life: Papers in Honor of Herbert H. Hyman
Validity in Survey Research
Data Construction in Social Surveys
Survey Questions
Strong Arguments and Weak Evidence: The Open/Closed Questioning Controversy of the 1940s
The debate on open/closed survey questioning and interviewing took shape in an organizational competition between groups of commercial and academic researchers working in the federal government during World War II. The controversy hardened differences between pollsters and certain academic social scientists without bringing experimental evidence to bear on the issues. Open questioning has yielded over the years to the dominance of closed question…
Conversations at Random: Survey Research as Interviewers See It
Predicting No Opinion in the Polls
On poll questions, levels of expressed public ignorance or indifference—No Opinion or Don't Know—can be explained in some part by certain properties of the questions pollsters ask, although the educational level of respondents is the single best predictor. No Opinion levels are analyzed in two large sets of recent poll questions published by Gallup and Harris. A measure of the language complexity of the questions shows no relationship to DK. Of t…
On Stimson's Interpretation of Declines in Presidential Popularity
Comments and Letters Get access Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 1976, Pages 538–543, https://doi.org/10.1086/268339 Published: 01 January 1976
The Effects of Black and White Interviewers on Black Responses in 1968
This article examines recent evidence on racial effects in interviewing northern urban black respondents on both racial and nonracial topics. It examines such effects by age, education, and several other background variables, and provides some evidence on which responses are distorted: those given to white interviewers, or those to black. Questions dealing with militant protest and hostility to whites showed the greatest sensitivity to interviewe…
The Status of Women As Students and Professionals in Political Science
What unique problems currently confront women eager to pursue careers in the discipline of political science? This question was a central one for the Association's Committee on the Status of Women, organized two years ago. As a major part of its fact-finding activities, the Committee conducted a mail survey of graduate students and post-graduate professionals in the discipline during the spring of 1970.It is obvious that the development of all ca…
Survey Questions
The Effects of Black and White Interviewers on Black Responses in 1968
This article examines recent evidence on racial effects in interviewing northern urban black respondents on both racial and nonracial topics. It examines such effects by age, education, and several other background variables, and provides some evidence on which responses are distorted: those given to white interviewers, or those to black. Questions dealing with militant protest and hostility to whites showed the greatest sensitivity to interviewe…
Predicting No Opinion in the Polls
On poll questions, levels of expressed public ignorance or indifference—No Opinion or Don't Know—can be explained in some part by certain properties of the questions pollsters ask, although the educational level of respondents is the single best predictor. No Opinion levels are analyzed in two large sets of recent poll questions published by Gallup and Harris. A measure of the language complexity of the questions shows no relationship to DK. Of t…
Strong Arguments and Weak Evidence: The Open/Closed Questioning Controversy of the 1940s
The debate on open/closed survey questioning and interviewing took shape in an organizational competition between groups of commercial and academic researchers working in the federal government during World War II. The controversy hardened differences between pollsters and certain academic social scientists without bringing experimental evidence to bear on the issues. Open questioning has yielded over the years to the dominance of closed question…
On Stimson's Interpretation of Declines in Presidential Popularity
Comments and Letters Get access Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 1976, Pages 538–543, https://doi.org/10.1086/268339 Published: 01 January 1976
The Status of Women As Students and Professionals in Political Science
What unique problems currently confront women eager to pursue careers in the discipline of political science? This question was a central one for the Association's Committee on the Status of Women, organized two years ago. As a major part of its fact-finding activities, the Committee conducted a mail survey of graduate students and post-graduate professionals in the discipline during the spring of 1970.It is obvious that the development of all ca…
The Effects of Black and White Interviewers on Black Responses in 1968
This article examines recent evidence on racial effects in interviewing northern urban black respondents on both racial and nonracial topics. It examines such effects by age, education, and several other background variables, and provides some evidence on which responses are distorted: those given to white interviewers, or those to black. Questions dealing with militant protest and hostility to whites showed the greatest sensitivity to interviewe…
The Status of Women As Students and Professionals in Political Science
What unique problems currently confront women eager to pursue careers in the discipline of political science? This question was a central one for the Association's Committee on the Status of Women, organized two years ago. As a major part of its fact-finding activities, the Committee conducted a mail survey of graduate students and post-graduate professionals in the discipline during the spring of 1970.It is obvious that the development of all ca…
Conversations at Random: Survey Research as Interviewers See It
Predicting No Opinion in the Polls
On poll questions, levels of expressed public ignorance or indifference—No Opinion or Don't Know—can be explained in some part by certain properties of the questions pollsters ask, although the educational level of respondents is the single best predictor. No Opinion levels are analyzed in two large sets of recent poll questions published by Gallup and Harris. A measure of the language complexity of the questions shows no relationship to DK. Of t…
On Stimson's Interpretation of Declines in Presidential Popularity
Comments and Letters Get access Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 1976, Pages 538–543, https://doi.org/10.1086/268339 Published: 01 January 1976
Strong Arguments and Weak Evidence: The Open/Closed Questioning Controversy of the 1940s
The debate on open/closed survey questioning and interviewing took shape in an organizational competition between groups of commercial and academic researchers working in the federal government during World War II. The controversy hardened differences between pollsters and certain academic social scientists without bringing experimental evidence to bear on the issues. Open questioning has yielded over the years to the dominance of closed question…
Survey Questions
Validity in Survey Research
Data Construction in Social Surveys
Surveying Social Life: Papers in Honor of Herbert H. Hyman
Survey Research in the United States: Roots and Emergence 1890-1960
Hardly an American today escapes being polled or surveyed or sampled. In this illuminating history, Jean Converse shows how survey research came to be perhaps the single most important development in twentieth-century social science. Everyone interested in survey methods and public opinion, including social scientists in many fi elds, will find this volume a major resource.Converse traces the beginnings of survey research in the practical worlds …
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse (3 works)