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    Lessons Learned: Online Patient Communities

    Susannah Fox participated in a discussion of how the maturation of online social networks, patient communities, and patient blogs affects health and health care.

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    V. Views on the Economy and Personal Finances

    Experiences during the recession are closely associated with perceptions of the recession. Nearly half (45%) of those who Lost Ground rate current economic conditions as “poor,” compared with 29% of those who Held their Own. At the other extreme, those who Held their Own are nearly twice as likely as those who Lost Ground to […]

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    Appendix A: 2010 National Survey of Latinos Survey Methodology

    Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS), an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 1,375 Latino respondents ages 18 and older, from August 17 through September 19, 2010. Some 542 respondents were native born (including Puerto Rico), and 833 were foreign born (excluding […]

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    New Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Survey Explores Religious Knowledge in the U.S.

    For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 28, 2010, 12:01 a.m. Washington, D.C. —Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures […]

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    Support For Same-Sex Marriage Edges Upward

    Overview Polls this year have found that more Americans favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally than did so just last year. In two polls conducted over the past few months, based on interviews with more than 6,000 adults, 42% favor same-sex marriage while 48% are opposed. In polls conducted in 2009, 37% favored […]

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    Gay Marriage Gains More Acceptance

    For the first time in 15 years of Pew Research Center polling, fewer than half oppose same-sex marriage, though, support (42%) remains below opposition (48%). The shift in favor of gay marriage has been broad-based, occurring across many demographic, political and religious groups.

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    App Downloaders

    Three-in-ten adults who use cell phones have downloaded an app to their phone.

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    An Overview of the Pew Forum Survey, Results and Implications

    The Pew Forum’s Alan Cooperman and Greg Smith, along with Boston University professor and author Stephen Prothero and Krista Tippett of American Public Media, explore key findings from a new Pew Forum survey on how much Americans know about religion as part of a panel discussion at a national symposium on religious literacy in Washington, […]

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    Don’t Know Much About Islam

    A majority of Americans say they do not know very much or know nothing at all about Islam.