Posts tagged “Pew Research Center”
Pew Report & “King of Bain” – Evidence of OWS’ Success
Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center released a new report that showed a strong increase of americans acutely aware of class conflict. While it explicitly mentions the Occupy Wall Street movement in its report, the report did not speak directly to the origins of the increased awareness (which is generally impossible to determine anyway). [...]
Measuring Class Warfare
I’m a little bit perplexed by the wording used by the Washington Post and The Pew Research Center in a recent poll that asked “Who (the Obama Administration or the Republicans in Congress) is helping the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots?’.” In such dire economic and political times, as unemployment continues to stall and governing-by-crisis becomes [...]
Thoroughly Unexpected Mathematical Illiteracy
We are truly a mathematically illiterate nation. Here’s an example of a respected blogger and a national polling outfit both managing to make themselves look pretty silly (the latter much more than the former). Greg Sargent noted yesterday that a new Pew poll confirms an earlier Rasmussen poll that showed support for Republican leaders dropping [...]