Polling

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2. Read the passage. take notes on the main points of the reading passage.

Polling is, of course, a survey of certain people to find out how they feel about an issue or about a candidate for a government post in an election. Polling involves, simply, asking people how they feel about an issue or a person and then telling the results.

When it is not feasible to contact everyone involved to find out what each person thinks because there are, for example, too many people to contact each one individually, then a representative sample of people can be polled and the results of the representative sample can be attributed to the population as a whole.

TOPIC OF READING PASSAGE: Definition of opinion polling

main points about the topic:
 * Polling is a survey of certain people to find out how they feel about an issue or about a candidate for a government post in an election. Polling involves, simply, asking people how they feel about an issue or a person and then tallying the results.
 * Representative sample of people can be polled ;moreover the results can be attributed to the population as a whole.

Topic:Professor's lecture about push polling Main points: *Negative and unfair type of polling known as push polling. Push polling involves trying to plant negative information under the guise of conducting an opinion poll. *Pollster tells someone that he simply wants to ask the person's opinion and then, instead of merely finding out that person's opinion, tries to surreptitiously implant negative information in the person's mind.

//In this set of materials, the reading passage discusses what the definition of polling is, and the listening passage explains the type push polling.//

The reading passage explains that the Polling is a survey of certain people to find out how they feel about an issue or about a candidate for a government post in an election. The listening passage explains negative and unfair type know as push polling.Moreover it tries to plant negative information under the guise of conducting an opinion poll.