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08/09/2020
How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers Viewed in isolation or presented without context, coronavirus numbers don’t always give an accurate picture of how the pandemic is being handled. Here, ProPublica journalists Caroline Chen and Ash Ngu offer insight on how to navigate the figures.
07/10/2020
Younger adults differ from older ones in perceptions of news about COVID-19, George Floyd protests Those ages 18 to 29 differ from older Americans in their news consumption habits and in their responses to major news events and coverage.
06/17/2020
When Will Consumers Feel Safe Again? Morning Consult is tracking consumers' comfort level returning to the public sphere for pastimes, such as going to the movies or to the gym, amid the ongoing threat of COVID-19. We’ll be updating this page every week with new data.
10/17/2019
Huge new survey about sexual violence on campus.
What 33 universities learned about sexual violence in a new survey Here is data emerging from the Association of American Universities survey this year of more than 180,000 students.
10/16/2019
Content Analysis of the Oct 15 Debate
Which Candidates Got the Most Speaking Time in the Democratic Debate Senator Elizabeth Warren and Joseph R. Biden Jr. led the stage of 12 candidates.
06/27/2019
Smartphones aren’t making millennials grow horns. Here’s how to spot a bad study The “millennials are growing horns” study is flawed, and its journal has launched an internal review. Can you spot the study's six major problems?
08/17/2018
This short article references several media/social media studies.
What we learned about media literacy by teaching high school students fact-checking Everyone is affected by misinformation, and teenagers want to be involved in fixing it.
08/11/2018
This article references several different polls/studies.
Opinion | Your everyday Republican has some galling views First they came for the free press. . .
08/08/2018
What research can find out.
New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media The ‘enemy of the people’ talk is working. A plurality of self-identified Republicans say they want Trump to have the power to take ‘bad’ media outlets out.
07/06/2018
Qualitative research approach
Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life While technology experts and scholars have concerns about the current and future impact of the internet, they also tend to report their own experience of digital life as positive.
06/21/2018
Americans believe two-thirds of news on social media is misinformation Public media outlets are perceived as the least biased and most accurate, according to new reports from Gallup and the Knight Foundation.
06/13/2018
Cannabis Makes Family TV Time More Fun, Say Pot-Smoking Parents A study found 8 out of 10 respondents consume w**d before TV time