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Majority of Americans Would Like to Return to Time Before Cell Phones, Internet, According to New Poll (www.thewrap.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seventy-seven percent of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was “plugged in,” meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage. As told by a new Harris Poll (via Fast Company), 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a pre-plugged-in world, despite that being a world they largely never had a chance to occupy.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have trying to find the poll by following link and found nothing but this.

According to a new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company

So there is no actual source, no ways to check if the poll actually exist or not, no way to check if poll's question phrased in a way to get certain response, how many actually responded to the poll, etc. And, compare to most big news published poll result, a confidence and margin of error.

There for, I simply view this as click bait article to generate engagement, which it did.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, as we all know, 73% statistics are made up on the spot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think the % is much higher cause even I sometimes say stuff like "I believe like 80% of my post is about games". But the reality is that I never actually tried to count it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I too would be interested in the poll methodology and results - if there was such a poll. The Harris Poll website (https://theharrispoll.com/partners/media/fast-company/ ) doesn't show any such poll - at least not that I could find after scrolling through pages and pages of polls and then keying 'middle-aged americans' into the search bar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It’s exactly counter to established research that places huge values on internet enables services.

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-much-are-search-engines-worth-to-you

18k per year valued for search engines, 9k a year for email and 4K a year for maps.

Of course framing might be slightly different, but getting people to saying thing is very different than getting people to put money where their mouth is. I would much rather trust the dollar signal, especially in the US.