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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · 12d

For those profs teaching data literacy.... www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2025...

Error bars illustrate the margin of error for a survey estimate by showing how precise that estimate is. Here are some answers to common questions that might help you better understand charts with err...

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Apr 7

Hey there, Bluesky!

We are excited to share our data and insights here with you, and so are our researchers: go.bsky.app/3QzdR9p

What would you like to see from us? Drop suggestions below!

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Mar 14

PSA for parents of high schoolers: Public opinion data/news you can use! @pewresearch.org pewrsr.ch/4kKMHRC

The Gender Gap in Teen Experiences

Teen girls and boys in the U.S. face different pressures and report different experiences at school, though they have many of the same goals in life.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Mar 10

All the @pewresearch.org data about views on the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-political aftermath in one place: www.pewresearch.org?p=197456 As are many of you, this week am marking 5 yrs since entering quarantine phase. Brings back some feelings!

5 Years Later: America Looks Back at the Impact of COVID-19

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Feb 27

Do the words "interactive database" make your heart sing? Then this is for you. All the data you could want on Americans' religious beliefs, policy beliefs, etc. Nationally and *by state*. Brought to you by a hardworking, cross-institutional team @pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org/religious-la...

Religious Landscape Study | Pew Research Center

The Religious Landscape Study is a comprehensive survey of more than 35,000 Americans’ religious identities, beliefs and practices that’s been conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24. Pew Research Center.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Jan 29

@pewresearch.org Key facts about federal workers www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

What the data says about federal workers

As President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, here are answers to some common questions about the federal workforce.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Nov 18

Our first major @pewresearch.org study of 'news influencers'. Part of the Pew-Knight initiative!
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America’s News Influencers

This study explores the makeup of the social media news influencer universe, including who they are, what content they create and who their audiences are.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Nov 13

Here @pewresearch.org we took a shot at wrapping up what pre-election polls told us about Trump supporters' beliefs, values and expectations pewrsr.ch/3YO2WDb

What Trump supporters believe and expect

The economy was the most important issue for Trump voters this year, 93% of his supporters said it was very important to their vote.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Sep 23

Celebrating our birthday here at Pew Research Center... Check out our take on some of the most interesting public opinion trends of the past two decades! tx to Jenn Hatfield www.pewresearch.org/2024/09/13/h...

How U.S. Public Opinion Has Changed in 20 Years of Our Surveys

We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Sep 10

Profs: Have to help students understand the good, bad and ugly of pre-election polling? We gotcha... www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Key things to know about election polling in the United States

The real environment in which polls are conducted bears little resemblance to the idealized settings presented in textbooks.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you're struggling to create an AI-use policy for your org, we feel you. Trying to be super transparent (if a bit slow)... here's our current thinking at @pewresearch.org pewrsr.ch/3AP7eln

How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using large language models in our work

In this post, we’ll share our current guidelines for the internal use of large language models and potential areas of experimentation.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hey y'all-- @pewresearch.org is trying a monthly pop up Election 24 newsletter ... Short and sweet, just the key data we've collected on this each month. Check us out www.linkedin.com/pulse/welcom...

Welcome to the Election 2024 @ Pew Research 🇺🇸 newsletter

Get the latest Center findings and all the data you need to dive deeper into the 2024 U.S.

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Mar 1

Our Data Labs team has been experimenting with geographical data... Check out the maps in their latest effort : Most Americans now live in a legal marijuana state – and most have at least one dispensary in their county. pewrsr.ch/3uJfiBR by Athena Chapekis and Sono Shah

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Feb 13

For our Survey Friends (and profs, this includes you), a deep dive into Pew Research's current thinking on how to ask the key demographic questions we all use to make sense of populations. Hard thinking but easy reading! www.pewresearch.org/methods/2024... Scott Keeter Anna Brown Dana Popky

Who Are You? The Art and Science of Measuring Identity

As a shop that studies human behavior through surveys and other social scientific techniques, we have a good line of sight into the contradictory nature of human preferences. Here's a look at how we c...

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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · Oct 12

For all the SURVEY RESEARCH types blueskyin' it: Pew Research Center just released our annual benchmarks for party ID and religious affiliation. Ton o' effort to get these, so we want to be sure they get used! National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) pewrsr.ch/3ukleLR

National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS)

NPORS is an annual survey of U.S. adults conducted by the Pew Research Center used to to produce benchmark estimates for several topics.

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