You don’t need to look much farther than Founding Father Thomas Jefferson to get a taste for the polarity Americans feel about the media. Back in the days of quill pens, in 1786 Jefferson wrote: “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” But two decades …
New Survey: Floridians express tension, concern for the First Amendment Read More »
As Florida lawmakers return to Tallahassee for a special session on property insurance and more, they do so with a pretty clear message from constituents: “Fix it (if you can).” This is the resounding takeaway from our December 2-5 survey of Florida voters, conducted to get a better sense of how residents – homeowners in …
Floridians on property insurance special session: deep support, but low expectations Read More »
From managing canine “coworkers” to selecting the right virtual Zoom background, many Floridians have been navigating new waters in order to do our jobs amid COVID-19. To gauge these changes, we’ve been surveying large, random samples of Florida voters weekly since the pandemic exploded in mid-March. Our goal was, and still is, to glean what …
The first Karen meme I saw was shared by a meme-obsessed millennial, who in no way would I have otherwise considered a harbinger of cultural intelligence. Turns out, he’s a disease vector of memes – he functions to be infected by and then expose others to memes, a Typhoid Mary for the internet age. The …
Each fall, in the weeks leading up to the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, I put time aside to contemplate forgiveness and atonement: Who have I hurt that I can come clean to, or ask forgiveness from? What angers or resentments am I holding on to that could be freed? I’ve witnessed remarkable resolutions between …
The challenge of forgiveness, from a polling perspective Read More »
As a mom of two elementary school students, I’ve heard friends asking my girls how they feel about the start of another school year. But we wanted to find out how PARENTS feel about the start of the school year – so we asked them. Our survey of Florida voters in early August found that …
INSIDE VOICES?!: The Many Emotions of Back-to-School Time for Parents Read More »
Those of us over age 35 have almost surely thought: “Thank goodness there was no social media when I was ___ ( fill in your age)” … but probably not for the reasons I’m concerned with today. Sure, we didn’t have to live in fear of being tagged in compromising pictures. We didn’t have to …
Sharing too soon: posting means political entrenchment Read More »
First, my grandpa would lose his keys. That’s pretty normal. Then came the more telling signs – getting lost in hallways and in conversations. Then he washed important documents that had been kept in the dishwasher. That really upset my grandma, who assumed the papers were safe there since he hadn’t used the dishwasher in …
On National Alzheimer’s Day, Get Lost in Numbers Read More »
Professors teaching statistics like to tee up lessons on “correlation vs. causation” by giving examples of events that may appear statistically linked – but actually don’t have a cause-and-effect relationship. The most classic of these is the observation that ice cream consumption and murder rates spike at similar times, such as seen here: It isn’t …
How do Leon County residents feel about their work lives? Home lives? Balance between the two? Sachs Media Group’s Breakthrough Research Division polled over 500 professionals in September 2016 and found a few fun and unexpected correlations that may teach us something about what we can do as individuals and as a community to improve …
Survey: Finding Work-Life Balance In Tallahassee Read More »