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Alex Rossell Hayes
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Senior Data Scientist, @today.yougov.com
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Political Science PhD
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Fun new finding for @today.yougov.com: The age at which Americans think most kids stop believing in Santa Claus just so happens to line up with when THEY stopped believing.

From my latest YouGov newsletter — subscribe for more fun poll analysis, free: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/this-newsl...
A table of YouGov polling data with the headline: "When do Americans think kids stop believing in Santa? That depends on when they stopped believing." The chart has the sub-headline: "At what age do you think the average child who ever believed in Santa Claus stops believing in Santa? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "not sure" are not shown. The sample size for each of the rows in the table is at least 50. As an example of how to read the chart: 34% of Americans who stopped believing in Santa by age 5 think the average believer in Santa stops believing by age 5, compared to 0% of those who stopped believing when they were 9, or 11 or older."
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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anildash.com
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
amandasmith.bsky.social Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
ryanboyd.bsky.social Holiday Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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coocho.bsky.social
A very well researched topic in sociolinguistics. If anyone wants an accessible entry text, look no further than Tannen's 1990 "You just don't understand"

A bit sad that the authors ignore four decades of research on language from linguistics, but guess we can treat this as a kind of triangulation
adamgrant.bsky.social Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 19h
Too many mediocre men talk over capable women.

Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation, taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill.

It's long past time to value competence over confidence.
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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jonathanmladd.com
It's inconvenient for people interested in Dem factional fights, or Obama 2012 veterans trying to get consulting work. But we have known since several days after the election that Trump gained fewer votes from 2020-2024 in swing states that were exposed to campaign messages than in other states. /1
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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opiniontoday.bsky.social
A majority of Americans think the president's pardon power should be limited.
(Taylor Orth, @today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251210-top...
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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kristofdhontphd.bsky.social
🚨New research in SPPS:
Call a dish plant-based meat and people think it will taste worse + looks “less manly.” Sexist beliefs made this even stronger.

Results of nearly 1400 meat eaters across 2 studies
w/ Salmen, @nadirafaber.bsky.social & Krings
Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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thegmcconnachie.bsky.social
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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today.yougov.com
NEW Economist/YouGov Dec 5-8
% who think the Constitution should | shouldn't be amended to limit the president’s ability to grant pardons
U.S. adult citizens 56% | 25%
Democrats 76% | 9%
Independents 58% | 23%
Republicans 34% | 45%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "A majority of Americans think the president's pardon power should be limited." The chart's sub-headline is: "Under the U.S. Constitution, the president has the power to pardon any person convicted of a federal crime. Do you think the Constitution should be amended to limit the president’s ability to grant pardons? (%)."
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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today.yougov.com
New polling on dual citizenship
% who say new U.S. citizens should [have to give up any foreign citizenship | swear an oath of allegiance but not give up citizenship | neither]
U.S. adult citizens 25% | 46% | 14%
Democrats 7% | 64% | 19%
Republicans 39% | 39% | 12%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say new U.S. citizens should be required to swear an oath of allegiance but not have to give up any other citizenship." The chart's sub-headline is: "When an immigrant becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen, should they...? (%)."
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
alxrh.bsky.social
Majorities say that when immigrants become U.S. citizens, they should not have to give up citizenship in other countries, and that Americans shouldn't lose their U.S. citizenship if they become citizens of another country.

More in my article at @today.yougov.com: today.yougov.com/politics/art...
The share of Americans saying that naturalized citizens should have to renounce any other citizenship is 25%. The share saying they should not have to give up any other citizenship is 60%. Most Americans who say new U.S. citizens should not have to give up other citizenships say they should have to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. (46% of all Americans, vs. 14% who are OK with new citizens retaining other citizenship without requiring an oath of allegiance). The vast majority of Democrats (83%) and about half of Independents (52%) and Republicans (51%) say that immigrants should not be required to give up foreign citizenship when they become U.S. citizens. The shares who would require a renunciation of citizenship in any other country are 7% of Democrats, 25% of Independents, and 39% of Republicans. A majority (56%) of Americans say Americans shouldn't have to give up their U.S. citizenship if they become a citizen of another country. Only 26% say Americans should be required to renounce their U.S. citizenship if they gain citizenship elsewhere. Majorities of Democrats (72%) and Independents (54%) would not require Americans to give up their U.S. citizenship if they become citizens of another country. Republicans, on the other hand, are evenly split: 43% would and 43% would not introduce such a requirement.
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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sfcpoll.bsky.social
Pew Research Center just released a big report on religiosity in America, finding little shift since 2020 across four big indicators of religious commitment in its high response-rate NPORS surveys. Worth a read -> www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
Religion Holds Steady in America
Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about religiousness by age and gender.
www.pewresearch.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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natanlast.bsky.social
an honor to get to put this full name in the NewYorker crossword today

www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
i mean to tell you that I have authorial quirks

i median to tell you that I have also acquired a thesaurus

i mode to tell you that I may have misunderstood the thesaurus

anyway, on average
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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burrata.bsky.social
“People are Using Chairs to Sit”
December 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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opiniontoday.bsky.social
Americans contemplate a post-penny future.
(@alxrh.bsky.social @today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251207
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
alxrh.bsky.social
Pretty surprising that a majority of men would choose to live on a women-only planet. Now the question is how many of them are sensible people and how many are just pervs 🤔
today.yougov.com YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 6d
New polling on views of hypothetical women-only and men-only planets
% who would definitely or probably ever consider living on a planet occupied only by women | men
U.S. adults 44% | 21%
Women 36% | 14%
Men 53% | 29%
today.yougov.com/society/arti...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Men and women are more likely to consider living on a planet of all women than one of all men." The chart's sub-headline is: "If there were a planet occupied only by [women / men], would you ever consider living on it? (%)."
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Anyone who says “be normal” betrays that they have an implicit value system of who is considered normal and who is not, and when you have that, you will always value some people and traits over another. They will always replicate hierarchies of power in the long run.
jacob-redman.bsky.social Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 8d
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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windupez.bsky.social
Sneezing in Australian: "AAAAH-choyy"
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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today.yougov.com
New polling on the penny
% of U.S. adult citizens who supported | opposed eliminating the penny in...
November 2025: 40% | 39%
February 2025: 42% | 30%
today.yougov.com/economy/arti...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Opposition to the penny's elimination is higher than before its production ceased." The chart's sub-headline is: "Would you support or oppose eliminating the penny coin, so that the lowest valued coin available would be the nickel? (%)."
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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today.yougov.com
% who think the U.S. should | shouldn't provide refuge to people fleeing war or oppression in their home countries
U.S. adults 54% | 20%
Democrats 78% | 7%
Independents 53% | 16%
Republicans 33% | 37%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
YouGov survey results by political party for the question, Do you think that the U.S. should or should not provide refuge to people fleeing war or oppression in their home countries?
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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today.yougov.com
Dec 5 poll of 3,383 U.S. adults (+/-2 points)
% who say the U.S. should [accept refugees from a variety of countries | only accept white South African refugees | not accept any refugees]
U.S. adults 53% | 3% | 19%
Democrats 76% | 3% | 5%
Republicans 30% | 5% | 35%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
YouGov survey results by political party for the question, Do you think the U.S. should…?
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
alxrh.bsky.social
New article at @today.yougov.com: It looks like opposition to eliminating the penny has grown, but that may be due to ambiguity about what "eliminate" means. With more explicit questions, there is more support for ending production and less for ending circulation.

today.yougov.com/economy/arti...
In February, we found that more Americans supported eliminating the penny than opposed its elimination. Nine months later, and after production of the penny has ended, there has been a shift in favor of the penny. Today, Americans are evenly split over whether to eliminate the penny: 40% of Americans somewhat or strongly support elimination, while 39% oppose it. Opposition to the penny's elimination has grown among Democrats, Independents, and Republicans since February. In February, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans were all more likely to support than to oppose eliminating the penny. Now, more Democrats and Independents oppose elimination than support it; only Republicans remain more likely to support than oppose elimination. Ending the production of new pennies while leaving old pennies in circulation draws more support than removing pennies from circulation entirely. While more Americans support ending penny production than oppose it (46% vs. 27%), the opposite is true about removing pennies from circulation entirely (34% vs. 42%). Both ending penny production and removing pennies from circulation are more popular among Republicans than among Democrats and Independents. But the gap in support between ending production and circulation is similar among all three groups: Ending penny production draws between 11 and 13 percentage points more support among each group. In all three groups, ending penny production draws more support than opposition, while removing pennies from circulation draws more opposition than support.
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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opiniontoday.bsky.social
More Americans approve of Democrats telling troops to refuse unlawful orders than approve of Trump calling this message sedition.
(@dhmontgomery.com @today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251203
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM