Of his respondents 42% thought things would get worse, and only 16% thought they will get better.
Several of his respondents place the source of today's difficulties much farther back in Muslim history.
In the gallery he presents the actual pages on which his respondents wrote or typed their answers.
All of his respondents were from modern nation-states — there were no hunter-gatherers, or people from other small-scale societies — and most were college students.
His respondents, Nelson decided, had no idea whatever how to see, how to read an object without attaching a story to it.
Only about 20percentt of his respondents cited Iraq as their chief issue (which makes it second on the list of voter concerns).
Apologizing for his lack of "cyber decency," Mr. Lessig told his respondents that if they wrote back, his e-mail program would mark their missives for special attention, but that he still might not make good on his "debt".
After quickly noting his subjects' names and ages, the student-soldier moved on to a more detailed set of queries, the answers of which, up until that point, had varied little among his respondents.
On January 29th Mr Pan took another online poll, asking whether China should have a clean air act; 99% of his respondents said yes.This kind of sustained online interest in an issue is unusual.
Dr. Kraut, for example, said he thinks the shift in data may come from his finding that "the Internet is a better place to be and live than it was in 1995," when many of his respondents had no friends or family online.
