PERIODICALS
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
inaccurate answers are simply due to memory lapses.
Moreover, attitudes expressed in polls are not always a reliable indi-
cator of behavior. During the early 1930s, researcher Richard LaPiere
crossed the United States with a Chinese couple to measure discrimina-
tion. Only one of the 251 restaurants and other public facilities they
visited refused them service. Yet when LaPiere later mailed question-
naires to the proprietors, 90 percent stated they...