Aaron W. Smith

And speaking of recommendations, most users follow them -- and young adults are especially likely to do so regularly

More from our "random walks" analysis. In the absence of any data about your personal preferences, the recommendation engine will point you toward what everyone else is watching (i.e. stuff with lots of views)

Thread: A few of my favorite findings from the report we just put out with the help of the awesome @skyejinx and @pvankessel (pewrsr.ch/2Dqishn) …

I don't tweet much, but when @mary_madden sends out the bat signal I jump to attention...very cool opportunity here!

@deaneckles Anyway, the primary goal here was to get a broad read on public sentiment but hopefully we can do something more detailed in the future that unpacks some of the more complicated issues you raised. Thanks for reading!

@deaneckles 3) Obviously there are exceptions, but many sites go out of their way to argue that they don't censor political speech -- for ex, this piece in the WaPo that came out the day before our report dropped. washingtonpost.com/technology/201…

Isn't this thus quite literally and obviously true, including by the platforms' own statements? In which case, it is good the public has accurate beliefs... twitter.com/pewinternet/st…

@tomonomicss You're right that one could define political activity in many ways, and the shape of those graphs (if not the exact %'s) look similar using several different definitions. We used that one mainly to be consistent with our politics team. Hope that helps!

@zack_hample Duccini

75% of Americans in @pewresearch study expect self-driving cars will help older Americans live more independently pewinternet.org/2017/10/04/ame… twitter.com/daiwaka/status…

@sarstar A lot of our poll respondents in the pro-AV camp made exactly that argument -- some really interesting divisions on perceptions of safety!

24% of workers with a HS diploma or less say that *none* of these six technologies has had a positive impact on their job or career

Beyond these emerging technologies, we found huge disparities when it comes to the impact of today's generation of tech tools

Americans expect robots to take over a wide range of human activities in the coming decades

We were surprised at the relatively positive response to robot caregivers. People's verbatim responses helped make sense of those attitudes