She edited Public Opinion Quarterly from 1975 to 1986,[1] and with several co-authors wrote the textbook Survey Methodology.
In 1938, a relative in New York helped her family escape the Nazis by moving to the US, and she grew up in Astoria, Queens.
She did her undergraduate studies at Queens College, City University of New York, completing a bachelor's degree in English in 1951 as the top student in her class.
When the National Research Act of 1974 created strict new requirements for human subjects research, Singer conducted a survey of experimental subjects' experiences that made her "the preeminent survey expert on confidentiality and informed consent".
[3] In 1996, Singer won the lifetime achievement award of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.