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Striking findings from 2023
Fewer Americans now say science has had a mostly positive effect on society
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- Striking findings from 2023
- One-quarter of U.S. 40-year-olds have never married, a record high
- Concern about artificial intelligence in daily life far outweighs excitement
- Favorable views of Supreme Court at lowest point in more than three decades of public opinion polling
- Support for the U.S. government and tech companies restricting false information online has risen steadily in recent years
- Gun deaths among U.S. kids increased 50% between 2019 and 2021
- Most Asian American adults have positive views of their own ancestral homeland; Chinese adults are the exception
- Fewer Israelis now believe that Israel and an independent Palestine can coexist peacefully
- For a majority of Americans, a standard tip when dining at a sit-down restaurant is 15% or less
- Partisans are increasingly divided over whether misinformation, harassment and civility are major problems on Twitter
- More than four-in-ten workers who get paid time off say they take less time off than their employer allows
- ‘Divisive,’ ‘corrupt,’ ‘messy’ among the words used most frequently to describe U.S. politics today
- 6 in 10 members of the historically Black Protestant tradition say they’ve been visited by a dead relative in a dream
- Half of U.S. adults disapprove of selective colleges considering race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, while a third approve
- Fewer Americans now say science has had a mostly positive effect on society
- Since the mid-1990s, the share of Americans with unfavorable views of both parties has more than quadrupled
- Majority of Americans say TikTok is a national security threat, but this varies by party, ideology and age