In a 2006 Quinnipiac University poll asking respondents to name the best president since World War II, Clinton ranked number two behind Ronald Reagan.

However, in the same poll, when respondents were asked to name the worst president since World War II, Clinton was placed number three behind Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

It was later found, however, that the authors used confusing and unorthodox wordings of the key questions, which artificially reduced the number of respondents reporting a defensive gun use

A poll taken one week after Norris withdrew from the presidential race, showed a large increase in public support for his Presidency if they were given the choice to vote for him ( topping the poll by a considerable margin ) with 40 per cent of respondents now saying they would vote Norris number one in the proportional representation electorial system and 50 per cent saying they would give him a vote.

Native American, between 91 and 108 ... African American, and between 47 and 56 ... Hispanic ... ne would have to believe that the objectives of ' critical mass ' offered by respondents are achieved with only half the number of Hispanics, and one-sixth the number of Native Americans as compared to African Americans.

This is supposedly because in a study where respondents were asked to choose a random number from 1 to 20, 17 was the most common choice.

The presence of the tone resulted in a significant number ( 22 %) of respondents reporting anxiety, uneasiness, extreme sorrow, nervous feelings of revulsion or fear, chills down the spine and feelings of pressure on the chest.

Over 25 percent of all employed respondents were employed in a temporary position, bringing the number of graduates employed in non temp jobs of any kind ( legal or otherwise ) to under 60 percent.

The bureau has noted an increasing number of respondents who mark themselves as Hispanic origin but not of the White race.

With large numbers of attributes, the consideration task for respondents becomes too large and even with fractional factorial designs the number of profiles for evaluation can increase rapidly.

They are a valuable method of collecting a wide range of information from a large number of individuals, often referred to as respondents.

* Efficient at collecting information from a large number of respondents.

Likewise, such a survey will include a disproportionate number of respondents who have traditional, land-line telephone service with listed phone numbers, and people who stay home much of the day and are much more likely to be available to participate in the survey ( e. g., people who are unemployed, disabled, elderly, etc.

The exercise can be administered to survey respondents in a number of different ways.

Some studies limit the number of fantasies entered ( such as only the most frequent ones ), and respondents may not write down all of their fantasies anyway -— they may forget infrequent fantasies, not want to write too many down, or be more subject to social desirability bias than with a checklist.

An ABC poll from 2003 found that 62 % of respondents thought " partial-birth abortion " should be illegal ; a similar number of respondents wanted an exception " if it would prevent a serious threat to the woman's health.

The number of census respondents who stated that they " usually " spoke Jèrriais was 113 ; 2, 761 respondents stated that they " sometimes " spoke Jèrriais.

Examples include the number of correct scores on an assessment of an ability, and the number of statements on a questionnaire endorsed by respondents.

Their research showed that “ the number of respondents using any 12-month mental health service was generally lower in developing than in developed countries, and the proportion receiving services tended to correspond to countries ’ percentages of gross domestic product spent on health care ”.

Due to the large number of respondents to native title applications, the process of mediation differs somewhat from that of other mediations.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

but when a large number were `` bunched up '' or `` banded up '', and marched away from their home range, as long as they stayed together the group was said to be a `` drift ''.

`` Well, she had a number of them where money was concerned '', Garth said.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.

Mr. Hawksley said he believed there are a number of qualified city residents who would be willing to take the full-time CD job.

The spokesman said the number to be furloughed cannot be estimated since the lay-offs must be carried out in each area depending on what men are most needed on the job.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

`` As we look to the $800 billion economy that is predicted for 1970 and the increase of about 40% in consumer expenditures that will be required to reach that goal, management can well be restless about how this tremendous volume and number of new products will be created and marketed '', Peterson said.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

`` The ship is huge '', said Macneff, `` but the number of military men and specialists we are taking limits the linguists to one.

If its minimal polynomial has degree, then the algebraic number is said to be of degree.

For instance, binary search is said to run in a number of steps proportional to the logarithm of the length of the list being searched, or in O ( log ( n )), colloquially " in logarithmic time ".

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

Archimedes, the renowned mathematician, was said to have used a burning glass ( or more likely a large number of angled hexagonal mirrors ) as a weapon in 212 BC, when Syracuse was besieged by Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

A bout in which the predetermined number of rounds passes is decided by the judges, and is said to " go the distance ".

At the start of each game, the doubling cube is placed on the bar with the number 64 showing ; the cube is then said to be " centered, on 1 ".

By now the rebel forces were said to have numbered 230, 000, however, this number should be treated with scepticism — Dio's account is known only from a late epitome, and ancient sources commonly exaggerate enemy numbers.

Blackness can be contrasted with " acting white ," where black Americans are said to behave with assumed characteristics of stereotypical white Americans, with regard to fashion, dialect, taste in music, and possibly, from the perspective of a significant number of black youth, academic achievement.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

It is said that, in 1038, they were dispersed in winter quarters in the Thracesian theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him ; instead of taking revenge, however, his comrades applauded her conduct, compensated her with all his possessions, and exposed his body without burial as if he had committed suicide.

Two sets are said to have the same cardinality or cardinal number if there exists a bijection ( a one-to-one correspondence ) between them.

Cryptography professor Arjen Lenstra observed that " Last time, it took nine years for us to generalize from a special to a nonspecial, hard-to-factor number " and when asked whether 1024-bit RSA keys are dead, said: " The answer to that question is an unqualified yes.

Few number theorists doubt that the Riemann hypothesis is true ( it is said that Atle Selberg was once a sceptic, and J. E. Littlewood always was ).

A real number a is said to be computable if it can be approximated by some computable function in the following manner: given any integer, the function produces an integer k such that: