Methodological Research - Research and data from Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/methodological-research/ Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World Mon, 05 May 2025 13:07:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/images/symbol-alt.svg Methodological Research - Research and data from Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/methodological-research/ 32 32 222456345 Q&A: Why and how we compared the public’s views of artificial intelligence with those of AI experts https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/03/qa-why-and-how-we-compared-the-publics-views-of-artificial-intelligence-with-those-of-ai-experts/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:54:37 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/?post_type=short-read&p=203334 In this Q&A, we speak with Brian Kennedy, a senior researcher at the Center, on why and how we conducted the survey of AI experts.

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]]> 203334 National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/fact-sheet/national-public-opinion-reference-survey-npors/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000 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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]]> 7332 How Pew Research Center Uses Its National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2024/07/08/how-pew-research-center-uses-its-national-public-opinion-reference-survey-npors/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000 In 2020, Pew Research Center launched a new project called the National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS). NPORS is an annual, cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults. Respondents can answer either by paper or online, and they are selected using address-based sampling from the United States Postal Service’s computerized delivery sequence file.

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]]> 101188 Quiz: Test your polling knowledge https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/quiz/how-much-do-you-know-about-public-opinion-polling/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:03:28 +0000 Test your knowledge of public opinion polling by taking our 10-question quiz.

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]]> 5748 How do people in the U.S. take Pew Research Center surveys, anyway? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/26/how-do-people-in-the-us-take-pew-research-center-surveys-anyway/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:48:51 +0000 Here, we address some of the most common questions we receive about the nuts and bolts of taking a U.S.-focused Pew Research Center poll.

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]]> 8972 Reproducibility as part of code quality control https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2024/03/28/reproducibility-as-part-of-code-quality-control/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:53:34 +0000 In this post, we discuss reproducibility as a part of Pew Research Center's code review process.

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]]> 111113 Online opt-in polls can produce misleading results, especially for young people and Hispanic adults https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/05/online-opt-in-polls-can-produce-misleading-results-especially-for-young-people-and-hispanic-adults/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:55:48 +0000 We examine how an opt-in poll may have unintentionally misled the public about the sensitive issue of Holocaust denial among young Americans.

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]]> 7758 Who Are You? The Art and Science of Measuring Identity https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2024/02/12/who-are-you-the-art-and-science-of-measuring-identity/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:57:35 +0000 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 categorize our survey participants in ways that enhance our understanding of how people think and behave.

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]]> 101048 Q&A: How we used large language models to identify guests on popular podcasts https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/06/how-we-used-large-language-models-to-identify-guests-on-popular-podcasts/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:50:00 +0000 We asked researchers how they used the newest generation of large language models to analyze roughly 24,000 podcast episodes.

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]]> 7797 Q&A: How – and why – we’re changing the way we study tech adoption https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/01/31/q-and-a-how-and-why-were-changing-the-way-we-study-tech-adoption/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:55:37 +0000 With our shift to using NPORS for studying topics like the digital divide, Americans can now respond by mail or online. This change in approach sets us up to continue studying tech adoption long into the future.

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