NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
What is different between "survey of 1914" and "survey in 1914"?
Context:
Research on this topic began with the eminent US psychologist James H. Leuba and his landmark survey of 1914. He found that 58% of 1,000 randomly selected US scientists expressed disbelief or doubt in the existence of God, and that this figure rose to near 70% among the 400 °8greater°± scientis 1 within his sample . Leuba repeated his survey in somewhat different form 20 years later, and found that these percentages had 2 increased to 67 and 85, respectively
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Research on this topic began with the eminent US psychologist James H. Leuba and his landmark survey of 1914. He found that 58% of 1,000 randomly selected US scientists expressed disbelief or doubt in the existence of God, and that this figure rose to near 70% among the 400 °8greater°± scientis 1 within his sample . Leuba repeated his survey in somewhat different form 20 years later, and found that these percentages had 2 increased to 67 and 85, respectively
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Top answer
"Survey of 1914" could mean that the survey period was the whole of 1914, but I cannot be sure from just this extract. Otherwise, I think they are interchangeable.
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"Survey of 1914" could mean that the survey period was the whole of 1914, but I cannot be sure from just this extract. Otherwise, I think they are interchangeable.
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