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Research method that measures attitudes and behaviour by administering structured questionnaires to representative population samples.
In a 2025 survey of 1,812 US adults, 40% of God-believers who trust reason over church teaching lean toward magic, versus 19% of believers who do not. The link holds only where a religious tie remains, and one survey wave cannot show which way anyone is moving.
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Manchester and KTH researchers found 6,198 UK and Swedish adults rated scientists above government officials but no higher than businesspeople or advocates. Credibility on technology's consequences did not carry over to health, education or employment.
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A survey of 3,935 UK adults found 2.5% do their best thinking at work, against 61.6% who said it happens between 5pm and 9am. The data are self-reported and come from one published account, so employers get a prompt to examine meeting and message load but no measured effect on output.
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Fidelity's survey found confidence rises with how much detail older clients share with their children. Just 27% have explained their plan's details to their kids, and 35% keep them posted on changes.
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The After the End project surveyed 1,000 UK adults in April 2026 and found four who called themselves fully prepared. The write-in answers about what else they would take were full of keepsakes, photographs and pets.
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The third wave of the Konstanz AI study surveyed 1,105 employees in May 2026 and put workplace AI use at 38 percent, a three-point rise that sits inside the sample's own error bar. Just over half of the tools those users reach for came in through the employer.
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A new Gallup and Pivotal survey measures how women's healthcare experiences carry into work, family and civic life. The work figure is the one benefits teams will reach for, though the survey put its questions to women only.
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NC State researchers surveyed 1,854 Americans and found 60% or more interested in science or convinced it benefits society, 43% calling it credible and 39% feeling they belong in it. The fix they propose rests on about 260 self-selected participants.
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WalletHub finds 43% of Americans expect to work until they die and 29% are counting on relatives. The one measured labor-supply figure in the file, employment among the over-65s, has climbed about 0.3 points a year.
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Aya Takagi and Ryosuke Nakadai surveyed 1,133 people in June 2025 and found the worldview gap widest on climate measures. The authors warn the result does not license rebranding a climate policy as conservation.
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