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Design and provenance of survey instruments, including omnibus surveys, piggyback questions, sample size and self-report limitations.
Syracuse University's Center for the Creator Economy found 55% of 1,001 U.S. adults get political information from social media often or always. Its ranking of YouTube above TV as the top single source rests on a gap too small for a sample that size to separate.
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The Gallup and Microsoft survey covers 37 of a planned 140 countries, and the one kind of trust it measures is whether people think AI returns accurate information. Governance programs run on the other kinds.
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Concordia researchers surveyed more than 15,000 people across 81 countries and found convenience, absent public taps and ad exposure all associated with single-use bottles, even though three quarters of respondents believed those bottles shed microplastics.
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Virginia Commonwealth University researchers surveyed 346 transgender and gender-diverse adults in early 2024 and found legislative anxiety the strongest correlate of psychological distress in their model, including for people living under protective state laws.
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The International Bar Association asked 326 legal professionals in more than 64 countries to rate both. The single wave measures how wide the gap is; the eighth straight year of global decline comes from another index.
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The William S.D. Louey Educational Foundation's whitepaper follows scholarship recipients from China into their careers and reports that 11 of 12 respondents reached leadership roles. The sample size sets what an employer can borrow from it.
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The share naming all three branches of government held at 65%, the same figure as 2024, and the one item that moved significantly in the 1,034-person sample was freedom of speech, cited by 73% after 79% a year earlier.
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Astronomer's State of Apache Airflow 2026 puts 5,818 practitioners behind two migration numbers measured on different denominators. Recomputed on one base, about 62 percent are planning a move they have not started.
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Psychologists at Emory ran questionnaire experiments with 1,680 US adults recruited on Prolific, and women reported more interest in jobs advertised as having more women, even when the abilities the ads listed were stereotypically male.
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The survey of 1,042 marketers reports the weakest blog results in its twelve-year run and no link to AI use, but with 92.4% of respondents using AI the comparison group is too small for that null to mean much.
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The three figures count firms, employment and individual workers, and the Census Bureau declared its own earlier adoption numbers incomparable after one clause in the question changed. Boards borrow such numbers to set targets.
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A worldwide survey led from Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute records what working physicists believe about dark matter and quantum gravity, and the way its answer options were drawn shapes what those percentages can prove.
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The July survey behind the AI coaching pitch reports CEO impressions and manager self-reports as one gap. Its most useful figure is how few managers say they want to prepare for a hard conversation unaided.
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A survey of 277 upper-middle-class households found subject tutoring reaching 84.5% of them, while the share paying more than 100,000 yuan for summer education programmes was 12.5% against the 39.4% recorded in 2024.
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A PLOS One study surveyed 4,113 tenure-system faculty at 83 US universities and found affiliation broadening with years since the doctorate, with 16.6 percent reporting a discipline different from the one they trained in.
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In 2,642 responses to the 2022 British Social Attitudes Survey, agreement that a described circumstance counts as poverty ran from 41% to 80%, with the ideological gap widest exactly where agreement was thinnest.
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Pew's favorability numbers turned toward Beijing this year. But the same survey's forced choice on economic ties still went to Washington almost everywhere. That is the column a partner strategy runs on.
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A commissioned YouGov survey puts U.S. AI displacement near 3%, with a sampling band about two points wide, and it excludes everyone currently out of work, which is precisely where the labor savings would be hiding.
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A PLOS One survey of 1,000 adults puts regular statistics users at 11%. If you publish risk numbers, forecasts or dashboards, that is your readership.
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