Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center appears in Bytes: Week in Review - Google to make links more prominent, Palantir moves to Florida and Ring reportedly had plans to use Search Party for more than finding lost dogs through a study cited by Stephanie Hughes on users rarely clicking source links after receiving AI-generated summaries. It also appears in New study reveals a "smartphone penalty" that distorts survey results through smartphone-adoption estimates cited by Carly Urban; that episode uses those estimates to show that smartphone ownership rose from about 35% in 2011 to about 85% in 2021.
The Pew context matters in two different measurement settings. For [[GoogleAIOverviews|Google AI Overviews]], click behavior helps explain why more prominent links may not restore publisher traffic; for the Smartphone Survey Penalty, smartphone adoption makes Survey Mode Effects more likely to affect long-running measures such as the National Financial Capability Study.
Connections
- Carly Urban - researcher citing the adoption estimates.
- [[GoogleAIOverviews|Google AI Overviews]], AI Answer Source Attribution, and Open Web Traffic Decline - AI-summary click-behavior context cited in the February 2026 episode.
- National Financial Capability Study - survey where phone completion changed sharply.
- Smartphone Survey Penalty and Survey Mode Effects - concepts contextualized by smartphone adoption.
- Financial Literacy Measurement - measurement area affected by the device shift.