Seriousness - Misinformation spread on social media (October 2020)
category | Total |
---|---|
Extremely serious | 62% |
Somewhat serious | 20% |
Not too serious | 9% |
Not at all serious | 4% |
Don't know | 5% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 65% | 51% | 61% |
Somewhat serious | 22% | 18% | 18% |
Not too serious | 6% | 11% | 11% |
Not at all serious | 3% | 6% | 5% |
Don't know | 4% | 15% | 4% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 69% | 61% | 64% |
Somewhat serious | 25% | 25% | 20% |
Not too serious | 5% | 6% | 7% |
Not at all serious | 1% | 2% | 4% |
Don't know | 0% | 6% | 4% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 61% | 57% | 63% |
Somewhat serious | 12% | 26% | 19% |
Not too serious | 14% | 11% | 10% |
Not at all serious | 7% | 3% | 5% |
Don't know | 5% | 2% | 4% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 69% | 52% | 62% |
Somewhat serious | 18% | 26% | 17% |
Not too serious | 7% | 9% | 11% |
Not at all serious | 3% | 5% | 5% |
Don't know | 3% | 8% | 5% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 56% | 71% | 79% |
Somewhat serious | 25% | 19% | 9% |
Not too serious | 11% | 5% | 7% |
Not at all serious | 2% | 3% | 3% |
Don't know | 6% | 3% | 1% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 61% | 57% | 67% |
Somewhat serious | 18% | 18% | 16% |
Not too serious | 8% | 19% | 5% |
Not at all serious | 10% | 4% | 3% |
Don't know | 3% | 1% | 9% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 67% | 43% | 60% |
Somewhat serious | 17% | 25% | 24% |
Not too serious | 9% | 11% | 8% |
Not at all serious | 4% | 6% | 3% |
Don't know | 3% | 15% | 6% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 59% | 64% |
Somewhat serious | 19% | 20% |
Not too serious | 11% | 8% |
Not at all serious | 5% | 3% |
Don't know | 5% | 5% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 61% | 59% | 68% |
Somewhat serious | 18% | 23% | 14% |
Not too serious | 11% | 10% | 7% |
Not at all serious | 5% | 4% | 4% |
Don't know | 5% | 4% | 7% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 54% | 59% | 65% | 66% |
Somewhat serious | 24% | 18% | 18% | 22% |
Not too serious | 11% | 11% | 10% | 5% |
Not at all serious | 6% | 5% | 3% | 3% |
Don't know | 5% | 7% | 4% | 5% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 84% | 56% | 62% | 55% | 66% | 65% |
Somewhat serious | 4% | 21% | 17% | 24% | 22% | 16% |
Not too serious | 5% | 11% | 10% | 12% | 6% | 12% |
Not at all serious | 0% | 3% | 8% | 1% | 4% | 4% |
Don't know | 6% | 9% | 3% | 8% | 2% | 4% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 62% | 50% | 70% | 70% |
Somewhat serious | 18% | 29% | 12% | 15% |
Not too serious | 12% | 7% | 9% | 5% |
Not at all serious | 3% | 5% | 3% | 5% |
Don't know | 4% | 8% | 6% | 5% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Extremely serious | 62% | 57% | 76% | 41% |
Somewhat serious | 20% | 23% | 13% | 19% |
Not too serious | 9% | 11% | 6% | 18% |
Not at all serious | 5% | 4% | 4% | 3% |
Don't know | 4% | 5% | 1% | 19% |