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    Acknowledgments

    This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of the Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at: www.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/journalism. Elisa Shearer, Research Associate Katerina Eva Matsa, Associate Director, […]

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    2. Solutions to address AI’s anticipated negative impacts

    A number of participants in this canvassing offered solutions to the worrisome potential future spawned by AI. Among them: 1) improving collaboration across borders and stakeholder groups; 2) developing policies to assure that development of AI will be directed at augmenting humans and the common good; and 3) shifting the priorities of economic, political and […]

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    5. Populist groups across the ideological spectrum have low trust in institutions

    Across Western Europe, publics express very different levels of trust in institutions. While the military is the most highly rated across all eight countries, publics in France, Spain, Italy and the UK express much lower levels of trust in other institutions, including financial institutions, the news media and the national parliament. In all countries surveyed, […]

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    Methodology

    This Pew Research Center analysis is based on surveys of parents and teens that were conducted using the NORC AmeriSpeak panel. AmeriSpeak is a nationally representative, probability-based panel of the U.S. household population. Randomly selected U.S. households are sampled with a known, nonzero probability of selection from the NORC National Frame, and then contacted by […]

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    Claire Gecewicz

    Claire Gecewicz is a research associate at Pew Research Center, where she contributes to the Center’s domestic religion polls. Gecewicz holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied sociology. She is a contributing author of many Pew Research Center reports, including “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” “Americans See Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse […]

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    J. Baxter Oliphant

    Baxter Oliphant is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center, where he focuses on U.S. politics and policy research including partisan polarization, trust in government, gun policy and U.S. foreign policy. He received doctoral and master’s degrees in politics from Princeton University and holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University. His dissertation explored the […]

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    John Gramlich

    John Gramlich is an associate director at Pew Research Center, where heoversees the organization’s data journalism blog. His research and writing focuses on criminal justice, legal affairs, immigration and other issues. Before joining the Center, he was a researcher at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where he focused on the U.S. correctional system. Earlier in his […]

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    Methodology

    Facebook user survey The analysis in this report is based on a nationally representative survey conducted from Sept. 4 to Oct. 1, 2018, among a sample of 963 U.S. adults ages 18 years and older who have a Facebook account. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. […]

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    What Americans Know About Science

    Many Americans can answer at least some questions about science concepts. Science knowledge levels remain strongly tied to education; Republicans and Democrats are about equally knowledgeable.