Random charts - stress

Source: What Americans are stressed about, charted

Random chart - genetic testing

Source: Genetic testing, insurance discrimination and medical research: what the United States can learn from peer countries

Random Charts - EU opinion

 

 

Source: Pew Research: Europeans Credit EU With Promoting Peace and Prosperity, but Say Brussels Is Out of Touch With Its Citizens

Random charts - public discourse

 

Source: Pew Research: Public Highly Critical of State of Political Discourse in the U.S.

Random chart - #MeToo

Source: After a year of #MeToo, American opinion has shifted against victims

"... surveys suggest that this year-long storm of allegations, confessions and firings has actually made Americans more sceptical about sexual harassment. In the first week of November 2017, YouGov polled 1,500 Americans about their attitudes on the matter, on behalf of The Economist. In the final week of September 2018, it conducted a similar poll again. When it came to questions about the consequences of sexual assault and misconduct, there was a small but clear shift against victims."

Random charts - health care costs

Source: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll – Late Summer 2018: The Election, Pre-Existing Conditions, and Surprises on Medical Bills

Random charts - financial security

Source: The Role of Emergency Savings in Family Financial Security: What Resources Do Families Have for Financial Emergencies (14-pgPDF)

The conclusion of the report? "...No matter how household well-being is measured, most Americans today do not have enough savings to weather a financial shock, and they feel this vulnerability acutely: Respondents expressed a clear desire to save, but the reality for many households is that they have far less of a financial cushion than they want or need. Many forces combined to produce the low levels of saving in U.S. households, including choices that families make about their finances—such as when and how much to spend—the resources they have, and needs that can drain their accumulated savings.

 

The challenges that Americans face in building savings are made steeper by the fact that, as households use their savings to address unexpected expenses and losses of income, they then need to replenish those reserves. In fact, the first brief in this series found that, although it could not demonstrate that shocks caused financial hardship, households that have had a financial shock have median liquid savings that are almost $4,000 below those that have not.

 

These findings reveal that significant parts of the population are at financial risk, but they also present an opportunity for broad-based efforts to enable and support family saving. Strategic policy changes have the potential to enhance households’ opportunity and incentives to build financial security. The next brief in this series will explore how Americans think about their savings and how insights into family finances can shape the creation of public policies and programs that can help households close their savings gaps."

Random charts - health consumers

 

 

 

Source: Complexity And Opportunity: A Survey Of US Health Consumers' Worries And Wants (17-pg PDF)

Random charts - misc.

 

 

 

Source: 17 striking findings from 2017

Random charts - trust

 

 

Source: How's Life? 2017: Measuring Well-Being

Random charts - democracy support

 

Source: Globally, Broad Support for Representative and Direct Democracy ...But many also endorse nondemocratic alternatives

"A deepening anxiety about the future of democracy around the world has spread over the past few years. Emboldened autocrats and rising populists have shaken assumptions about the future trajectory of liberal democracy, both in nations where it has yet to flourish and countries where it seemed strongly entrenched. Scholars have documented a global “democratic recession,” and some now warn that even long-established “consolidated” democracies could lose their commitment to freedom and slip toward more authoritarian politics. 

A 38-nation Pew Research Center survey finds there are reasons for calm as well as concern when it comes to democracy’s future.."

Random charts - next generation

 

 

Source: Public divided on prospects for the next generation

Random chart - the press

Source: Democrats, Republicans now split on support for watchdog role

Random chart - threats

Source: Poll: Arabs See U.S. as a Threat

Random chart - right vs.wrong track

Source: What the world worries about

Random charts - euroskepticism

 

 

Source: Euroskepticism Beyond Brexit

"... a new multi-nation survey from Pew Research Center finds that Euroskepticism is on the rise across Europe and that about two-thirds of both the British and the Greeks, along with significant minorities in other key nations, want some powers returned from Brussels to national governments."

Random charts - military opinion

 

Source: The Obama era is over. Here's how the military rates his legacy

Random charts - perception errors

 

 

Source: Perceptions are not reality: what the world gets wrong: Ipsos Perils of Perception Survey 2016 

"The latest Ipsos Perils of Perception survey highlights how wrong the public across 40 countries are about key global issues and features of the population in their country.

The key patterns are:

• Most countries think their population is much more Muslim than it actually is – and that the Muslim population is increasing at an incredible rate
• All countries think their population is less happy than they actually say they are
• Most countries are more tolerant on homosexuality, abortion and pre-marital sex than they think they are
• And nearly all countries think wealth is more evenly distributed than it actually is."

Random chart - confidence in police

Source: The Racial Confidence Gap in Police Performance

 

"Only about a third of blacks but roughly three-quarters of whites say police in their communities do an excellent or good job in using the appropriate force on suspects, treating all racial and ethnic minorities equally and holding officers accountable when misconduct occurs. Roughly half of all blacks say local police do an excellent or good job combating crime – a view held by about eight-in-ten whites.

 

Blacks and whites also differ over the root causes of the fatal incidents between police and blacks in recent years. Even before the recent lethal encounters between police and black men in Tulsa and Charlotte, the survey found that blacks are 25 percentage points more likely than whites to say the deaths of blacks during encounters with police in recent years are signs of a broader societal problem and not merely isolated incidents.

 

At the same time, whites and blacks both see the complexity of the situation. Majorities of each race say that both anti-police bias and a genuine desire to hold officers accountable for their actions play a part in fueling the protests that have often followed these fatal incidents, though whites are more skeptical than blacks about the demonstrators’ motives. There is less agreement on which is the more important motivator: For whites, it is anti-police bias (85% vs. 63% who see a sincere desire to promote accountability); for blacks it’s reversed (79% of blacks cite accountability, 56% opposition to the police)..."

WTH?

Source: Most Americans Believe Palestinians Occupy Israeli Land