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    Flashpoints in Polling

    Many people wonder: Can polls be trusted? The following essay contains a big-picture review of the state of polling, organized around a number of key areas.

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    5. Variation in online nonprobability survey design

    One possible explanation for the variability in estimates across the different nonprobability samples is the range of methods that online sample vendors employ. They differ on recruitment, weighting and everything in between. Even if the impact of each of these differences is small, the cumulative effect could be much larger. Panel recruitment and survey sampling […]

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    6. Scenario: Personal details and advertisements

    Today a wide range of online services offer their product free of charge in return for tracking users’ activities in order to profile them for the purposes of serving them advertisements. This bargain anchors a wide range of commercial services on the web, from social media platforms to search engines to web-based email clients. The […]

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    5. The internet plays less of a role in lifelong learning for those with lower levels of education and income

    Along with class-based differences in the overall incidence of pursuing learning, there are differences across class lines when it comes to where learning takes place and how adults view its impact. For personal learning, the only significant difference emerges when looking at whether people used the internet for personal learning. Overall, 52% of personal learners […]

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    Parents, Teens and Digital Monitoring

    Parents monitor their teen’s digital activities in a number of ways, such as checking browser histories or social media profiles, but using technical means like parental controls is less common.

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    Methodology

    This study examined anonymized cellphone audience behavioral data collected by the web analytics firm Parse.ly through the lens of engaged time spent with long- versus short-form news articles. The data stem from activity on a mix of general and niche websites that are clients of Parse.ly.[11. numoffset=”11″ Pew Research Center is a customer of Parse.ly, […]

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    1. How parents monitor their teen’s digital behavior

    Much like their children, parents of teenagers now live in a world that is heavily influenced by digital devices and online platforms. Among parents of 13- to 17-year-olds, 94% own a desktop or laptop computer; 76% own a smartphone; 72% use Facebook; and 84% go online at least occasionally using a smartphone, tablet or other […]