Apps Permissions in the Google Play Store
Analysis of over 1 million apps in Google’s Android operating system in 2014 shows apps can seek 235 different kinds of permissions from smartphone users. The average app asks for five permissions.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Much of the analysis in this report is based on a Pew Research Center survey conducted June 10-July 12, 2015 among a national sample of 2,001 adults, ages 18 years and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (701 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,300 were interviewed […]
The items used in the so-called Perry-Gallup scale – originally developed in the 1950s and ’60s by election polling pioneer Paul Perry of Gallup and used in various combinations and with some alterations by the Pew Research Center, Gallup and other organizations in their pre-election polling (Perry 1960, 1979) – are widely employed by survey […]