The four multiple-choice questions also were included in a separate survey of approximately 1,800 U.S. In addition to the 32 questions about religious topics, the survey included five factual questions to test knowledge of the Holocaust: one open-ended question and four multiple-choice questions.
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The margin of sampling error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.Ī previously published report on this survey explored the public’s answers to 32 knowledge questions about a wide range of religious topics, including the Bible and Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, atheism and agnosticism, and religion and public life. adults recruited from landline and cellphone random-digit-dial surveys and an address-based survey), supplemented by interviews with members of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel. The study was conducted mostly among members of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. These are among the key findings of a survey conducted online Feb. By comparison, non-Jews who correctly answer one question or less (including those who get none right) rate their feelings toward Jews at 58 degrees, on average. For example, non-Jews who correctly answer at least three of the four multiple-choice questions about the Holocaust rate Jews at a relatively warm 67 degrees on the feeling thermometer, on average.
That said, respondents who get more questions right also tend to express warmer feelings toward Jews. Similar shares express cold feelings toward Jews among those who overestimate the number of Holocaust deaths (9%) and among those who say they do not know how many Jews died in the Holocaust or decline to answer the question (12%). On a “ feeling thermometer” designed to gauge sentiments toward a variety of groups, nine-in-ten non-Jewish respondents who underestimate the Holocaust’s death toll express neutralor warm feelings toward Jews, while just one-in-ten give Jews a cold rating. While the survey cannot answer this question directly, the data suggests that relatively few people in this group express strongly negative feelings toward Jews. This raises an important question: Are those who underestimate the death toll simply uninformed, or are they Holocaust deniers – people with anti-Semitic views who “ claim that the Holocaust was invented or exaggerated by Jews as part of a plot to advance Jewish interests”? 1 Nearly three-in-ten Americans say they are not sure how many Jews died during the Holocaust, while one-in-ten overestimate the death toll, and 15% say that 3 million or fewer Jews were killed. And a similar share (45%) know that approximately 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. And close to two-thirds know that Nazi-created ghettos were parts of a city or town where Jews were forced to live.įewer than half of Americans (43%), however, know that Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany through a democratic political process. Seven-in-ten know that the Holocaust happened between 19. When asked to describe in their own words what the Holocaust was, more than eight-in-ten Americans mention the attempted annihilation of the Jewish people or other related topics, such as concentration or death camps, Hitler, or the Nazis. adults know what the Holocaust was and approximately when it happened, but fewer than half can correctly answer multiple-choice questions about the number of Jews who were murdered or the way Adolf Hitler came to power, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Read more about the ATP’s methodology and the methodology for this report. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. To further ensure that each survey reflects a balanced cross-section of the nation, the data are weighted to match the U.S. Recruiting panelists this way gives us confidence that any sample can represent the whole population (watch our Methods 101 explainer on random sampling). Both the online survey panels used as a basis for this study recruited panelists by phone or mail via random sampling to ensure that nearly all U.S. An additional 542 respondents were sampled from the Ipsos KnowledgePanel – all of them Jewish, Mormon or Hispanic Protestant, to bolster the samples for these subgroups.
Most of the people surveyed (10,429) were members of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel. The new data is based on a survey of 10,971 U.S. (The first was conducted in 2010.) This time, we also included a few questions aimed at measuring how much Americans know about the Holocaust, resulting in this report. religious knowledge survey, designed to gauge Americans’ familiarity with a variety of religion-related facts. Last year, Pew Research Center conducted its second U.S.
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