A report suggests that among Americans, the average number of close friends people report having is just two. You can read an msnbc report of the study here. The study reports that the researchers ...surveyed more than 2,000 adults ages 18 and older from the nationally representative Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) program. …
Category: Identifying Claims
Poll on the Tea Partiers: August 2011
Recently, two political scientists wrote an essay in the New York Times explaining some polling data they had collected on the Tea Party political group in the United States. Here's one of the claims in their article: "Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more than doubled, to 40 …