Title: Are the Pew Research Center's surveys a reliable source? - Quora
Headings: Are the Pew Research Center's surveys a reliable source?
Are the Pew Research Center's surveys a reliable source?
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Nikola Arizanović
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Content: If they tell you they’re conducting a public opinion survey that will only take a few minutes of your time, do you hang up? It’s only about 9% of Americans that answer these calls and do these surveys, and it’s their opinions who end up on these polls. The nonprofit Pew Research Center is one of the least biased, most reliable polling organizations in the country. Recently, though, Pew decided to turn the spotlight on the reliability of its own research. What it found was alarming: less than 1 in 10 Americans respond to their polling. That’s down from a response rate of 36 percent just 15 years ago. That’s not a proper sample size & this isn’t just a Pew problem. If they gave a Poll about how many Americans used the internet, and came back with the results “1 in 5”. That wouldn’t mean that one in five U.S. adults doesn’t use the internet.