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We ran a survey experiment on religious tolerance in Australia to examine whether respondents’ answers capture a general distaste for religion rather than intolerance for particular religious groups.
As part of our quality control process, we review code with a series of interim reviews during a project and a formalized code check at the end.
Demographic characteristics and other factors, such as the devices that respondents use to take surveys, are tied to Americans’ willingness to engage with open-ended questions.
Given the complexities of geopolitics, how might wording affect responses to a question about a hypothetical conflict between China and Taiwan?
While there is no magic length that an online survey should be, Pew Research Center caps the length of its online American Trends Panel surveys at 15 minutes.
Building informative and digestible data visualizations is a foundational aspect of Pew Research Center’s work.
In our March 2021 survey, we decided to take a fresh look at the consent language we used when asking Americans to give us their Twitter handles.
Having a sample of adult Twitter users allows researchers to filter out bots, minors, institutional accounts and international users.
Our data science work typically involves multiple researchers working collaboratively on code.
PMI is a quick and easy way to identify words that distinguish one group of documents from another.
Pew Research Center recently sought to measure what U.S. adults know about geography, foreign leaders, institutions and other issues.
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