Psephological Intelligence
'WHILE the Gallop Poll overestimated the Tory and Labour votes, it underestimated the Liberals.'—Ne►vs Chronicle, May 28.
'THE NEWS CHRONICLE Gallup Poll was shown to have been extremely accurate.'—News Chronicle, May 28.
'IT MUST be sadly recorded that the cube law is one of the casualties of the election.'—Mr. H. G. Nicholas, the Observer, May 29.
THE REMARKABLE fact is that at this election the cube law worked very well. . . .'—Professor M. G. Kendall and Mr. Alan Stuart, the Observer, May 29.
'IT is a little disturbing that the Government majority has turned out to be so much less than the common estimate of about a hundred seats in the new House of Commons.'—A Student of Political Arithmetic, Manchester Guardian, May 28.
'Tun RESULT of the election might have been very much worse.'—Manchester Guardian, May 28.
'IT WAS still, by any realistic standards, a good poll.'—Mr. Donald McLachlan, Daily Telegraph, May 28.
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