respondents, of whom 600000 live in other countries. The ability to deliver and receive 50000 five-minute surveys per hour results in a dramatic savings in cost. The only problem is that half of all households in the United States are not connected to the Internet. That means certain segments of the population, generally the poor and less educated, are unavailable as potential respondents. Figure 2-4 looks at some of the concerns and possible solutions presented by Internet polling. Social scientists are closely monitoring this new technology to see how it might revolutionize one type of research design ( J. Simons 1999; H. Taylor and G. Terhanian 1999; Terhanian 2000 ).