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February 25, 2021
** Global Attitudes & Trends
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A biweekly digest of the Center's latest findings from its worldwide public opinion surveys and demographic research · Subscribe ↗ ([link removed])
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** Americans trust Biden on world affairs, but are divided over America’s role
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Just weeks after President Biden announced that “America is back,” a new Pew Research Center survey ([link removed]) finds six-in-ten Americans trust the newly elected president to handle world affairs. Roughly the same share say the United States should take the interests of allies into account, even if it requires compromise. Support for multilateralism, however, does not mean the appeal of “America first” has vanished. Americans are split on how large a role their country should play in global affairs: 49% say the U.S. should play an active role on the international stage, compared with 50% who think the focus should be on problems at home. This public divide over international vs. domestic priorities will be one of the factors influencing how the Biden administration defines America’s place in the world.
James Bell
Vice President of Global Strategy, Pew Research Center
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** Majority of U.S. public confident in Biden’s handling of foreign policy as term begins ([link removed])
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President Joe Biden begins his term with a majority of Americans having confidence in his ability to handle international affairs. In a new Pew Research Center survey ([link removed]) , 60% of U.S. adults have confidence in Biden on foreign policy – fewer than said the same of Barack Obama as his presidency began (74%) but more than for Donald Trump in his first year (46%).
* British, French and German publics give Biden high marks after U.S. election ([link removed])
* Legislators in UK, Canada and Australia express post-election enthusiasm for Biden administration on Twitter ([link removed])
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** Experts say the ‘new normal’ in 2025 will be far more tech-driven, presenting more big challenges ([link removed])
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Pew Research Center asked 915 innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists what life will be like in 2025 in the wake of the outbreak of the global pandemic and other crises in 2020. Their broad and nearly universal view ([link removed]) is that people's relationship with technology will deepen as larger segments of the population come to rely more on digital connections for work, daily commercial transactions and social interactions.
* Online harassment occurs most often on social media, but strikes in other places, too ([link removed])
* About one-in-five Americans who have been harassed online say it was because of their religion ([link removed])
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** Assessing the consistency of online opt-in polls ([link removed])
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Many studies have found that opt-in samples from different vendors can vary wildly. In this post, we examine whether online opt-in or “nonprobability” surveys are consistent in the same ways ([link removed]) as probability-based surveys, a step toward better understanding the possibilities and challenges inherent in trending nonprobability estimates over time.
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