Americans have solidly positive views of the computer industry, which have stayed consistently high since 2001. Yet fewer Americans feel the same way about the Internet industry, with a drop off in net positive ratings in this area since last year. CONT. Art Swift, Gallup Read more »
Business and Industry Sector Images Continue to Improve
Americans’ views of 24 business and industry sectors continue to grow more positive after falling precipitously in 2008 during the Great Recession. The average net-positive rating of the 24 sectors is now +18, up from -1 in 2008, and the highest since 2003. CONT. Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’
A major insight into human behavior from pre-internet era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in public—or among their family, friends, and work colleagues—when they believe their own point of view is not widely shared. This tendency is called the “spiral […] Read more »
America’s cultural segregation fault lines
… We don’t live in America anymore. We live in thousands of Americas, many no farther away than our computer screens and the Internet. These are self-identified Americas. … The fact that we have different interests, different perspectives, is certainly not new, nor is the fact that we band together, […] Read more »
In One America, Guns and Diet. In the Other, Cameras and ‘Zoolander.’
… This summer, The Upshot conducted an analysis of every county in the country to determine which were the toughest places to live, based on an index of six factors including income, education and life expectancy. Afterward, we heard from Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google, who suggested looking […] Read more »
What’s the best way to run a survey?
… Political Analysis, a political science journal that publishes research on methodology and measurement in the study of politics, has a five-article symposium on “Advances in Survey Research” in the current issue. Even more good news: working in conjunction with The Monkey Cage, Oxford University Press has agreed to make […] Read more »