Goodies from Pew Research Foundation
Aug. 11th, 2020 06:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osewalrusPew Research Foundation does a lot of good surveys on many different topics using varied methodologies. They often produce useful information or just interesting (to me, at least) tidbits.
Recent survey on switching political party. Turns out relatively few people switched party allegiance between 2018 and 2020, and the numbers were about equal for each party (9% moved from D to R, 9% moved from R to D). But the trends perpetuated trends of the last ten years. Those switching from D to R tended to be white with no college degree. Those switching from R to D tended to be white with college degree or non-White.
Key things to know about polling in the U.S. today. A really good FAQ on the basics of how polling works and how pollsters responded to the problems identified in 2016. Also, in a world where barriers to entry in the field have collapsed, good ways to tell which polls are more likely to be accurate.
Once we went into COVID lockdown, 9 in 10 Americans said an internet or cell phone outage would be a "big problem." But the vast majority do not think electronic communication compensates for face-2-face.
Recent survey on switching political party. Turns out relatively few people switched party allegiance between 2018 and 2020, and the numbers were about equal for each party (9% moved from D to R, 9% moved from R to D). But the trends perpetuated trends of the last ten years. Those switching from D to R tended to be white with no college degree. Those switching from R to D tended to be white with college degree or non-White.
Key things to know about polling in the U.S. today. A really good FAQ on the basics of how polling works and how pollsters responded to the problems identified in 2016. Also, in a world where barriers to entry in the field have collapsed, good ways to tell which polls are more likely to be accurate.
Once we went into COVID lockdown, 9 in 10 Americans said an internet or cell phone outage would be a "big problem." But the vast majority do not think electronic communication compensates for face-2-face.
