Our dedicated team lifted us to new levels in 2025, producing more than three dozen rigorous, probability-based international surveys as well as domestic assignments – quantitative and qualitative alike – for partners as disparate as the American Statistical Association, the Chronicle of Higher Education, a well-known university-based research center and a leading research-focused hedge fund.

We’re excited to build on our strengths in the new year ahead, extending our data-collection capabilities as well as leveraging our expertise in sample designs, writing optimal questionnaires and discussion guides, moderating focus groups, weighting survey data and analyzing results to produce insightful, approachable and actionable research reports.

We’re especially pleased to report that we’re celebrating the arrival of 2026 with several staff promotions:

Yulia Baskakova, Ph.D., from director of international projects to vice president, international research
David Sichinava, Ph.D., from research analyst to senior research methodologist
Jared Sousa, B.A., from research associate to data collection manager
Ishai Melamede, B.A., from research assistant to research associate

Additional gratitude for the many contributions of the rest of our team – Christine Filer, Ph.D.; Allison De Jong, M.A.; Steven Sparks, Ph.D.; Jaclyn Wong, Ph.D.; and Gibran Okar – as well as for the support of our research partners and the interest of friends and colleagues in our ongoing work.

Gary Langer gave an invited lecture, Transparency in Opinion Polling, via web call to the Gallup International Association’s annual meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, on Tuesday, arguing for full disclosure of survey methods and materials to restore and preserve faith in the integrity of the research enterprise. See his presentation slides here. (Gallup International is not associated with U.S.-based Gallup Inc.)

We’re proud to announce the release of the 2025 Texas Teacher Poll, the sixth annual survey of public school teachers in the state produced by Langer Research Associates for the Charles Butt Foundation.

This year’s poll dives into teacher preparation and support, finding that fewer than half of Texas teachers, 48 percent, feel they were prepared to enter the classroom at the start of their careers. The report includes in-depth coverage of responses to an open-ended question asking teachers to describe the experiences or trainings that could have helped them be better prepared.

Regardless of career training, ongoing needs for support are extensive. Three-quarters of teachers say most of their students started the 2024-2025 school year below their expected grade level. Strategies to address learning gaps are the topic of greatest interest for professional development.

The poll also explores retention and recruitment strategies, teacher pay, ways administrators can create a positive work environment and teachers’ preferred time use, among other topics. See the full report here.

A new report from the Center for News, Technology and Innovation finds that broad majorities across Australia, Brazil, South Africa and the United States use favorable rather than unfavorable terms when asked to describe the traits of “people who produce journalism.” CNTI’s analysis of an open-ended question from the four-country survey, conducted in fall 2024, is part of a broader exploration of the public’s views of journalism across various geographies and news environments. It adds to previous releases from the Center, including a report on the public’s views on who can produce journalism, the value of news organizations, and the role of technology and AI in journalism. The survey builds on a series of focus groups, also conducted in each of the four countries, exploring how the public defines news and journalism, gets their news and views the use of AI in news.

We’re proud to have provided research design and management services across the four countries included in this important project.

Our April 2025 ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that 39 percent of Americans approved of the job Donald Trump had done in his first 100 days in office, the lowest approval for any president at this point in their term in data going back to 1945. Economic discontent was extensive, with 73 percent saying the economy is in bad shape and 72 percent thinking it’s very or somewhat likely Trump’s policies will cause a recession in the short term.

In addition to coverage by ABC and the Post, results were picked up by USA Today (here and here), The New York Post, NBC, CNBC, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Politico, The Hill, Newsweek, The Nation, The New Republic, Roll Call, Scripps News, Mother Jones, Letters from an American, Truthout, Katie Couric Media, Mediaite, Hollywood Unlocked, The New Zealand Herald, RBC-Ukraine, Kyiv Post and Business Times, among other outlets. Stephen Colbert gave it a shout-out. And we even made Roofing Contractor.

Separate analyses from the poll covered views on immigration, tariffs, Elon Musk and opinions on Trump’s proposals to take control of Canada and Greenland, serve a third term and send violent U.S. felons to foreign prisons. These results were covered by USA Today, The Guardian, Daily Herald, Vox, Politico (also here and here), Daily Kos, The Independent, The Philadelphia Tribune and The Hill (and here and here), among others.

Lastly, in a qualitative analysis of one-word reactions to the Trump presidency thus far, respondents offered everything from “outstanding” to “disaster.”

ABC covered the poll on World News Tonight, This Week and Good Morning America (also here and here), on ABCNews.com and on its news podcast Start Here, here and here.

Gary Langer gave a talk to the New England Chapter of the American Association of Public Opinion Research called “Media Reporting of Polls – and How to Improve it.” The presentation covers topics ranging from misrepresentation of samples and error margins to inflated research claims. See the slides here.

Cambridge University Press has published “The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism,” including a chapter, “Public Attitudes on Implicit Bias,” by Yulia Baskakova, Gary Langer and Allison De Jong of Langer Research Associates and Prof. Jon Krosnick of Stanford University. The chapter, reporting on a representative, probability-based national survey, as well as a review of public claims and policies on the topic, finds “significant disconnects between the state of the science, public pronouncements, and the public’s understanding of implicit bias.” We identify widespread claims in the public realm that implicit bias can be measured reliably, influences behavior and can be mitigated through training, and substantial public acceptance of these claims – all matters on which the scientific evidence is inconclusive.

The survey data and other materials relating to the chapter are publicly available at https://bias-study.parc.us.com. We’re grateful to SSRS for donating data collection services.

Another chapter was co-authored by members of the Reporting Committee of the National Science Foundation Conference on Implicit Bias, including Bernadette Park, Richard Petty, Joshua Correll, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Vince Hutchings, Sabine Otten, Christopher Parker, William von Hippel and Langer, reporting on findings from a two-day conference on the topic convened by the NSF in September 2017. The book was edited by Krosnick, Prof. Tobias Stark of Utrecht University and Amanda Scott.

Research Analyst Jaclyn Wong presented her work on gender-based perceptions of household tasks at the Gender and Gender Inequality Workshop at Stanford University in November and at the Social Psychology Workshop at UC Santa Barbara in December. Preliminary analysis of the research, conducted with collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northeastern University during her time as an associate professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina, finds that unpaid housework performed by women was seen as less enjoyable but more effortful, more time-consuming, more important and more financially valuable than the same tasks performed by men. In seeing such work by women as more personally costly but more beneficial to the family, people may see the costs of doing housework as “worth it” for women, but not men, because it produces greater collective benefits. The research was conducted among a nationally representative sample of 2,495 adults using an experimental vignette in which key details including the main character’s gender were randomized among survey respondents. The research was supported by a grant from the Time-Sharing Experiment in Social Science (TESS) Program, funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Monday before the presidential election we produced an analysis, published on ABCNews.com, looking at the economic, demographic and cultural factors that have brought the country to this political place. On Election Night we produced live exit poll analysis for ABC News, covering results nationally, in the seven battleground states and in three additional states with closely watched contests. Donald Trump leveraged historic economic discontent to broaden his base and win convincingly. See our wrap-up of the night’s results here and a subsequent piece on abortion and the election here.

As Election Day nears, our latest ABC News/Ipsos poll finds the race in a close 49-46 percent, Harris-Trump, among likely voters. Americans head to the polls beset by financial concerns, a dissatisfaction with the choice of candidates and a feeling the country has gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track. Still, each candidate has reasons for optimism as they present their final arguments: Harris looks strong among women, young women especially, while Trump performs well in his base of white voters without college degrees.

We’ll also be working behind the scenes on Election Day providing live exit poll analysis for ABC News’ TV coverage of the results. Tune in Tuesday at 7 p.m. for more.