7 things we’ve learned about computer algorithms
Pew Research Center released several reports in 2018 that explored the role and meaning of algorithms in people’s lives today.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Methodology
This Pew Research Center analysis is based on surveys of parents and teens that were conducted using the NORC AmeriSpeak panel. AmeriSpeak is a nationally representative, probability-based panel of the U.S. household population. Randomly selected U.S. households are sampled with a known, nonzero probability of selection from the NORC National Frame, and then contacted by […]
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Methodology
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted January 9-14, 2019 among a national sample of 1,505 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (388 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,117 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]
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6. Impressions of voting in elections
Voting is widely viewed by the public as important: 91% say this, while just 8% say it is not. Although most also view it as convenient (73%), straightforward (70%) and exciting (62%), these evaluations are less universally held, and there are sizeable partisan, age and educational differences in these views. Registered voters offer much more […]
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Methodology
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted January 9-14, 2019 among a national sample of 1,505 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (388 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,117 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]
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Appendix B: About the focus groups
In each country, the groups were structured according to the following criteria: Group 1, “lower education” – all participants had less than a college degree; Group 2, “younger, higher education” – all participants were under 35 years old and had at least a college degree; Group 3, “older, higher education” – all participants were ages […]
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Methodology
Facebook user survey The analysis in this report is based on a nationally representative survey conducted from Sept. 4 to Oct. 1, 2018, among a sample of 963 U.S. adults ages 18 years and older who have a Facebook account. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. […]