17 Aug Go to the Pew Research Center’s website on US politics
- Go to the Pew Research Center’s website on US politics (Links to an external site.). (Links to an external site.)
- Find a survey that you find interesting or important. The page is presented as a series of headlines, so feel free to browse until you find one you’d like to work with.
- NOTE: Most of these pages will have a “Complete Report” available for details that don’t appear in the summary article.
- Summarize the findings and address the points below. Write this up as one or two paragraphs rather than a set of bullet point answers.
- What demographics (i.e., groups in the population) are studied and why?
- What questions were asked? (You can simply list these. If there is a large number, present a representative sample.)
- Why do you think they addressed this issue? (In other words, why did Pew consider this an important issue for a survey?
- Which course concepts, if any, are relevant to this survey?
- Finally, what is your overall assessment? For example, was this a valuable or useful study? What are the implications of the findings?
