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Originally Posted by conan50
Right at the top of the article: Pew Research Center.
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Pew Research is at the very bottom of the research barrel, as far as reliable methodology goes.
It was originally founded several decades ago to produce in-house polling data for the (Chicago) Tribune corporation.
Real firms cost too much money, and often failed to craft results matching a newspaper story that was already written before the results came out to be added in.
With declining prestige (yes a lot of longtime Tribune readers had begun openly mocking everything they put out) the Tribune corporation changed the name from "Tribune Research" to "Pew Research" and spun it off as an independent entity.
It's been maybe ten or fifteen years since the name change, but I can't tell that there has been any improvement in methodology. Often they put stuff out with no hint of how their data was collected to be found anywhere.
After all these decades, I take anything they say about any topic with a dump truck full of salt and if they said that water was wet I would look for a corroborating source.