The aim of this article is an interpretative analysis savoir-vivre guide by Zofia Stryjeńska. I analyse that in the context other good manners guides, social reality, opinion polls and also life work great painter. What interesting for me is: understanding Stryjeńska, values, attitudes gestures connected with savoir-vivre, if Stryjeńska brings something new to or she only repeats what authors s...

The attitude of the population to other countries is considered, taking into account two tendencies last one and a half centuries: globalization, which based on economic processes with their interdependence individual players from each in international market, glocalization, as phenomenon “rebellious periphery” opposing dominant culture that refuses such an acculturation strategy. role mass inf...

The telephone survey is a common social science research method for capturing public opinion, for example, an individual's values or attitudes, or the government's approval rating. However, reducing domestic landline usage, increasing nonresponse rate, and suffering from response bias of the interviewee's self-reported data pose methodological challenges to such an approach. Because of the labo...

Doodle is a simple and popular online system for scheduling events. It is an implementation of the approval voting mechanism, where candidates are the time slots and each responder approves a subset of the slots. We analyze all the Doodle polls created in the US from JulySeptember 2011 (over 340,000 polls), consisting of both hidden polls (where you cannot see other people’s votes) and open pol...

We present a method to determine political profiles of a voters population through the application of learning algorithms and game theory. Our process began with a collection of surveys gathered in two ways, from a website and directly from voters. Having a linear hierarchy on the attributes expressing the political preferences of the voters allow to apply a zero-sum game approach to distribute...

This paper describes the application of statistical methods to political polling data in order to look for correlations and memory effects. We propose measures for quantifying the political memory using the correlation function and scaling analysis. These methods reveal time correlations and selfaffine scaling properties respectively, and they have been applied to polling data from Norway. Powe...