Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The American food scene has undergone considerable change over the past two decades. During this period, the public has seen the introduction of genetically modified crops, the mainstreaming of organic foods into America’s supermarkets,[4. numoffset=”4″ Catherine Greene, Seth J. Wechsler, Aaron Adalja and James Hanson, Feb. 2016. “Economic Issues in the Coexistence of Organic, Genetically […]
Mechanical Turk is a website owned and operated by Amazon since its creation in 2005. The name comes from an 18th century chess-playing device commissioned by Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. Challengers competed against the Turk, believing they were competing against an automated machine. However, the Turk was an illusion. Challengers were led to believe they […]
There is a host of ways Americans’ opinions about climate issues divide. The divisions start with views about the causes of global climate change. Nearly half of U.S. adults say climate change is due to human activity and a similar share says either that the Earth’s warming stems from natural causes or that there is […]
This study includes data from four primary sources collected using different methodologies. Content Analysis The detailed analysis of the tasks posted on Mechanical Turk consisted of human coding of content that appeared from Dec. 7-11, 2015. Capture The most recent 10 pages of HIT groups posted on Mechanical Turk were automatically gathered using a Python […]
After the June 2013 leaks by Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance of Americans’ communications, Pew Research Center began an in-depth exploration of people’s views and behaviors related to privacy. Here’s what we learned.