{"id":7080,"date":"2013-03-27T06:03:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2013-03-27T06:03:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T13:03:18","slug":"the-power-of-demographics-on-culture-and-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/the-power-of-demographics-on-culture-and-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Demographics on Culture and Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting thing happened in Ohio politics a week or so ago, Rob Portman a Republican Ohio Senator “came out” to his constituents on his changing his opinion on gay marriage since finding out that his son was gay.<\/p>\n

As you may have already realized this created all kinds of conversation on any politically-centered media channel. \u00a0But I thought it might be fun to explore shifting opinions from a more data-driven perspective.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a peek at the Pew Research Center’s latest survey on the topic of Gay Marriage:<\/p>\n

This data chart simply shows what impacts the overall view of those people surveyed. \u00a0But take a look at this chart:<\/p>\n

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Here you can clearly see the impact that demographics make on the results.<\/p>\n

“Millennial support for same-sex marriage has grown substantially over the past decade, from 51% in 2003 to 70% today. And Millennials make up a larger share of the adult population today. In 2003, Millennials made up just 9% of the adult population. Today, 27% of adults are in the Millennial generation.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So what?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A couple of things strike me about this research;<\/p>\n