“In many cases, the differences don’t reflect conflicting realities, but rather significant dissimilarities in how researchers measure and report religion in America today. This, in turn, leads to confusion and can create difficulties in understanding what’s really going on.” - Gallup
“In the U.S., 39 percent of respondents expressed the belief….The belief is lowest in Thailand, a largely Theravada Buddhist population, polling at 27 percent.” - BPNews
“in three and a half years, the latest poll indicates, America seemed to change more drastically than it did in the prior 21 years. Of course, what happened in 2020, 2021, and 2022 was immense. Government-mandated shutdowns of schools and private businesses and forced mask-wearing….” - CPost
“…despite low response rates, national polls like the Center’s come within a few percentage points, on average, of benchmarks from high response rate federal surveys.” - Pew
“As with much polling, the devil is in the conveniently omitted details.” - C.Today
“According to studies of polling methods, people answer questions differently when they’re speaking to another human. It turns out that sometimes people overstate their Bible reading if they suspect the people on the other end of the call will think more highly of them if they engaged the Scriptures more. Sometimes, they overstate it a lot.” - C.Today
“The biggest change the polling found was an uptick by 11 percentage points for Americans who believe abortion should be legal ‘in all cases’ to 27%. The remaining supporters, 36%, believe abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, which has come down from 45% since 2010.” - Christian Headlines
“The increased reliance on web-based research for public opinion surveys is raising questions about the relevance of long-accepted political and social trends documented in decades of telephone polling. … prominently and consistently reported declines in belief and church attendance may be less dramatic than reported over the past two or three decades.” - BNGlobal
“…among Democrats under the age of 45, the shift was even more significant: According to Marist, 28 percent of them said they were pro-life last month. Now, almost as many young Democrats identify as pro-life as pro-choice.” - National Review
