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You said you get most of your information about science and technology from the Internet. What is the place you are most likely to go on the Internet for science and technology information"online newspapers, online magazines, or some other place on the Internet? you most likely to go on the Internet for science and technology information?
Where online people get science information · Asked in 5 waves, 2010–2018 · 2,381 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2018 | 2018-04-12 to 2018-11-10 | face to face | 2,348 | 650 |
| General Social Survey 2016 | 2016-04-05 to 2016-11-19 | face to face | 2,867 | 721 |
| General Social Survey 2014 | 2014-03-31 to 2014-10-13 | face to face | 2,538 | 526 |
| General Social Survey 2012 | 2012-03-20 to 2012-09-05 | face to face | 1,974 | 394 |
| General Social Survey 2010 | 2010-03-15 to 2010-08-12 | face to face | 2,044 | 90 |
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Online newspapers | Online magazines | Science site | News site | Electronic books & reports | Wikipedia | Government site | Social media (facebook, youtube, twitter) | Other | Search engine (google, bing) | n | MoE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | 25% | 13% | 8% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 6% | 6% | 35% | 650 | ±5 | |
| Less than high school † | 27% | 17% | – | – | – | – | – | 6% | – | 50% | 42 | ±18 | |
| High school | 22% | 6% | 9% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 9% | 8% | 40% | 180 | ±9 | |
| Some college | 25% | 13% | 9% | 3% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 7% | 5% | 35% | 199 | ±9 | |
| Bachelor's | 29% | 19% | 8% | 5% | – | 2% | 1% | 5% | 7% | 24% | 150 | ±10 | |
| Postgraduate † | 25% | 15% | 11% | 3% | – | 2% | 6% | – | 6% | 32% | 79 | ±14 |
General Social Survey 2018 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.