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Methodology

How to read the results.

The site is designed to reveal patterns among verified participants. It is not a scientific poll and should not be presented as one.

The short version

Participants choose to visit the site, verify an email address, provide a state of residence, and respond to each statement with Agree, Disagree, or Pass. Results describe those participants only. They do not estimate the views of every American.

Participation and safeguards

  • Each conversation allows one completed response set per verified participant.
  • Email verification helps reduce automated or casual duplicate responses.
  • Privacy-protected device, browser, and network signals are converted into one-way hashes and used to identify likely duplicate participation.
  • No safeguard is perfect. A determined person may still evade controls, and shared devices or networks may occasionally be blocked.

What is measured

Every statement uses the same three response choices: Agree, Disagree, and Pass. Participants may add optional written context, but those explanations are not published. State is self-reported and is used only for regional aggregation.

What is published

Public results show aggregated counts and percentages. A statement must have at least five verified responses in a selected geography before its distribution appears. Individual votes, email addresses, and written explanations are not public.

Important limitations

  • This is a self-selected, nonprobability sample.
  • The results are not weighted to match the U.S. population.
  • There is no conventional margin of sampling error.
  • Question wording, order, current events, recruitment sources, and who chooses to participate can affect results.
  • State-level results may be especially unstable when samples are small.