Most Americans think the government could be monitoring their phone calls and emails

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Assignment 1 Reviewing Research and Making Connections
In February 2017, Pew Research Centre researched what Americans felt about the likeliness that the Government was spying on its citizens. The study was conducted on American citizens. The respondents’ ages ranged from as young as high school students to those above sixty years. The question of the research was if the respondents believed that the government spied on them through their phone calls and emails. The researchers grouped the respondents according to gender, level of education, and age.
The research was conducted through random sampling of the respondents. In order to ensure that the findings were as accurate as possible, the study was undertaken in two phases. The first involved acquiring demographic data from the interviewees. This stage included determining their age, gender, the level of education, and political inclination. After this, the researchers embarked on identifying whether their respondents believe that the government spied on them, and if so, to what extent. The results, therefore, were classified as either “very likely” or “somewhat likely.”
The results of the research revealed that seventy percent of the adults believe that the government spies on them. More people under 50 years (78%) share this opinion as opposed to those above the age. Moreover, men are more convinced of the government’s espionage than women. People with tertiary education are not as skeptical of the government as high schoolers and those still in college.

The only congruity in the findings was in the political inclination: both Democrats and Republicans expressed similar levels of the belief that the government spied on them (70%). In conclusion, an overwhelming majority of the American population believes that their government spies on them.
From these research, two follow-up questions arise. The first is if the respondents agree with the idea of the government spying on them. Only 40% of the respondents think so. The second was if they were okay with the government spying on citizens of other nations. 54% of those interviewed agree. These questions were chosen to determine the people’s agreeability with the perceived government’s actions, and if they felt that these actions were justifiable means of curbing terrorism.