5 facts about Americans and sports
About half of Americans (48%) say they took part in organized, competitive sports in high school or college.
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About half of Americans (48%) say they took part in organized, competitive sports in high school or college.
More than half of Americans (53%) say America’s sport is football – about twice the share who say it’s baseball (27%).
About six-in-ten Americans (62%) say they follow professional or college sports not too or not at all closely.
Here are some key takeaways for how the public engaged with Team USA on Twitter during the Tokyo Olympics.
Here is how the average adult Twitter user in the U.S. tweeted about the news in 2021, as well as how these patterns have changed since 2015.
Roughly one-quarter of American adults use Twitter. And when they share their views on the site, quite often they are doing so about politics and political issues.
A minority of Twitter users produce a majority of tweets from U.S. adults, and the most active tweeters are less likely to view the tone or civility of discussions as a major problem on the site.
COVID-19 may yet do what years of advocacy have failed to: Make telework a benefit available to more than a relative handful of U.S. workers.
Overall, 43% of U.S. adults say they often or sometimes play video games. Gaming is popular among teens – especially teenage boys.
On Twitter, suspected bots are far more active in sharing links to news sites focusing on nonpolitical content than to sites with a political focus.
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