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 verified participant may answer each question once. When new questions are added, returning participants can answer only those they have not completed.
- 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. New statements may be added to the question bank over time while earlier questions and their results remain available. 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.