Tag: POLL

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently decided to start parsing Tweets, categorizing them by topic and measuring their sentiments, in a way similar to a recent exercise by HP Labs focusing on box office performance. The team was able to analyze this data and produce, in effect, public opinion polls without having to call (annoy) a single person. What's more, the results of this ...

A new poll from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that Internet news sources continue to command more U.S. readers than both local and national newspapers. The Web overtook newspapers in 2008, and has only lengthened its lead, with 61-percent of adults saying they get at least some news online. More important than the Web's growing popularity as a news source, though, is how ...

A new Zogby poll on cyber security and education reveals that, while 90-percent of administrators believe it's important to teach kids basic Web safety, a vast majority offer no such lessons. The study, commissioned by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Microsoft, found that only 27-percent of teachers offered any instruction on safe social networking, and less than 20-percent ...

We bloggers are well aware of the fact that we spend more time online than is normal, or maybe even healthy. Still, while plugging away in the dark depths of our mothers' basements, we like to comfort ourselves by saying (to the life-size Spock figurines that keep us company), "Yeah, but these days, everybody's online a lot, right?" We should've realized that Spock's silence was just his quiet, ...

Did you finally get with the times and pick up a cell phone so that you wouldn't feel so behind at social gatherings? If so, welcome to the present, but we hate to tell you that you still have some catching up to do: indications are that, soon, most people will have not one cell phone, but two! This is according to a survey of 1,000 mobile phone users, which found that the average was 1.8 ...

Earlier this year we reported that 16-percent of households have cut the tether; relying exclusively on cell phone service and canceling landline service altogether. We have a follow-up survey now, and perhaps unsurprisingly, that number continued to grow, now up to 17.5 percent. One year ago that figure was 13.6 percent, showing a progressive rate of change among people eager to be rid of ...

'Round these parts, we prefer to read the fine print first, so it should be noted that none other than Macrovision -- you know, the firm that purchased the now-cracked BD+ DRM scheme for $45 million last year -- financed this here study. According to poll results from US and UK consumers, around 1 in 3 individuals admitted to "making copies of pre-recorded DVDs in the past 6 months, up over a ...

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has been mighty busy as of late. Hot on the heels of its study that revealed that people like to Google themselves, but like to Google others even more is a fresh batch of stats about how teenagers communicate. The survey of 12 to 17 year old boys and girls turned up some shocking information -- teens still prefer a good old-fashioned landline phone to ...

The Internet has turned us all into a bunch of stalkers. Don't believe us? Then check out this poll from the Pew Internet research center. The same report that found that most American's hadn't Googled themselves reveals, by contrast, that a majority has Googled a friend or family member. Why Google someone else? Well, many (36 percent) said that they searched for a friend they had lost touch ...

A recent survey of 3,000 undergraduate students at New York University shows that most kids are willing to sacrifice their right to vote for an iPod, among other things. Sixty-six percent said they would be willing to give up their right to vote in the next presidential election for a year's tuition. But don't start shaking your head just yet -- it gets worse: Twenty percent said their ...

Some people develop a bit too strong of a bond with their technology. We'd say they're all around you, but these types of people tend to stay inside a lot. Zogby International and 463 Communications conducted a poll about people's attitudes towards technology, and the results are either terrifying or reassuring, depending on how bad you thought the epidemic of tech-fetishism was. Overwhelmingly ...

Many parents think their kids spend too much time online. And just in case you needed an official study to confirm the obvious, non-profit Common Sense Media recently teamed with educational foundation Cable in the Classroom to survey parents about their kids and the Web. The survey reached out to 411 parents of children age six to 18 and asked a whole host of questions regarding their ...

Teenagers can sometimes be a miserable bunch. According to British researchers, that may have something to do with a lack of quality sleep. The culprit of this "junk sleep?" Electronics, of course. According to a survey done by The Sleep Council, a full 30 percent of children between 12 and 16 years old only get 4-7 hours of sleep a night as opposed to the recommended 8-9. Almost 25 percent ...

The Internet is a terrible tool in the hands of the bored and sick. According to a Harris Interactive poll, 160 million Americans use the Internet to seek out health diagnoses and information. 74 percent of those polled have looked up medical information more than once in the last month. Harris calls them (us), 'cybercondriacs'. In just two years, the number of 'cybercondriacs' has increased 37 ...

Like Tom Cruise's career, telephone landlines are on a path to extinction. That's according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which, apparently, has grown bored of studying its usual fodder of killer viruses, avian flu and other flesh eating bugs. The study reports that more than 25 percent of folks under 30 have ditched traditional landline phones in favor of ...