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    Part 4. How Emailers Interact with Spam

    Spam exists because it is profitable, but emailers have defenses they can use. There are many profiteers in the lucrative spam industry: Email address list builders scavenge and sell lists of email addresses. Software makers and marketers build and sell cheap programs that facilitate numerous illegal spam activities: look for vulnerable, hackable email servers, disguise […]

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    Part 6: Cynicism, Trust and Participation

    Americans have long had a cynical view of politics and politicians. But these attitudes are no more widespread today than before the overtime presidential election of 2000. In fact, on several measures, the public is considerably less negative toward politics now than in the mid-1990s, when anti-Washington hostility was rampant. And one important trend continues: […]

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    Part 1: Party Affiliation

    Parity in partisan affiliation is a relatively new phenomenon in American politics. For most of the period between the late 1930s through the beginning of the 21st century, the Democratic party held an advantage ­ often sizable ­ over the Republicans in party identification. The Democratic lead in party identification was modest through the 1940s […]

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    About this Survey

    Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,500 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period September17 – 22, 2003. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling […]

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    About this Survey

    Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,500 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period September17 – 22, 2003. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling […]

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    About this Survey

    Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 2,528 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period July 14 – August 5, 2003. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable […]

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    About this Survey

    Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 2,002 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period June 24 – July 8, 2003. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable […]

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    About this Survey

    Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 2,002 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period June 24 – July 8, 2003. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable […]

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    Methodology

    This Pew Internet & American Life Project report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet and an online survey about Internet health resources. Telephone interviews were conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between November 25 and December 22, 2002, among a sample of 2,038 adults, 18 […]

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    College students and computer, video and Internet games

    Chicago (July 6, 2003) — Computer, video and online games are woven into the fabric of everyday life for college students. And, they are more a part of college students’ social lives than many would suspect. All of the 1,162 students surveyed on 27 campuses by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported they […]