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Three-quarters of Americans are familiar with the length of a Supreme Court appointment.
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Three-quarters of Americans are familiar with the length of a Supreme Court appointment.
Americans generally regard India favorably, but many have never heard of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Roughly three-quarters of Americans (76%) have visited at least one other country, including 26% who have been to five or more.
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Many Americans say that religion is very important in their lives. But how much do people in the U.S. actually know about their faith tradition – or about religions besides their own? A new report from Pew Research Center tries to answer this question by asking U.S. adults 32 fact-based questions about a variety of […]
U.S. Jews have relatively high levels of religious knowledge. But other Americans are unable to answer some basic questions about Jewish practices.
About half of whites correctly answered at least nine of 11 science-related questions, compared with much smaller shares of Hispanics and blacks.
Younger U.S. adults were better than their elders at differentiating between factual and opinion statements in a survey conducted in early 2018.
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