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    Teens, Social Media and Technology 2018

    YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular online platforms among teens. Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone and 45% say they are online almost constantly.

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    1. The positives of digital life

    The greatest share of participants in this canvassing said their own experience and their observed experience among friends is that digital life improves many of the dimensions of their work, play and home lives. They cited broad changes for the better as the internet revolutionized everything, from the most pressing intellectual and emotional experiences to […]

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    How to break regression

    Regression models are a cornerstone of modern social science. Yet social scientists can run into a lot of situations where regression…

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    Methodology

    To analyze the content of congressional Facebook posts, researchers studied a complete set of posts created by members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and displayed on their official and unofficial public pages between Jan. 1, 2015, and Dec. 31, 2017. Data from previous Congresses were not available. Researchers used the Facebook Graph […]

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    3. People’s varying wish lists for information aids that might help them make decisions

    One way to think about how people handle information demands is to examine their “wish list” of tools that might help them use information in making decisions. This produces some insight into the resources people say would help them cope with information demands. The survey asked people the degree to which certain resources would contribute […]

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    2. The negatives of digital life

    There were considerably fewer complaints about the personal impact among these expert respondents. But their own lives and observations give testimony that there are ways in which digital life has ill-served some participants. The following anecdotes speak to the themes that the internet has not helped some users’ well-being. If someone would have told me […]

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    2. Americans fall along a spectrum when it comes to information engagement

    The cluster analysis yields five groups of people based on their information interests, their trust in a variety of sources, their assertions about their learning interests when it comes to digital information, some lifestyle issues, and their technology assets. These groups are distinguished in key respects by the variances in how they cope with trust […]

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    How People Approach Facts and Information

    People deal in varying ways with tensions about what information to trust and how much they want to learn. Some are interested and engaged with information; others are wary and stressed.

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    3. Improvements ahead: How humans and AI might evolve together in the next decade

    Other questions to the experts in this canvassing invited their views on the hopeful things that will occur in the next decade and for examples of specific applications that might emerge. What will human-technology co-evolution look like by 2030? Participants in this canvassing expect the rate of change to fall in a range anywhere from […]