A Newbie’s Guide to the Meryl Streep Fan Club

The Golden Globe Awards were hosted a few nights ago, and all everyone seems to be talking about is Meryl Streep – and for good reason. While accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, she poured her heart out, and gained a whole deal of attention – both good and bad. Only the “Devil […]

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Is the Reign of the Kardashians Finally Coming to an End?

As a rule of thumb, I won’t even mention the surname “Kardashian.” There are just too many critical events happening throughout the country to give weight to this confusingly infamous family. But today, I’m breaking that rule. For years, CivicScience has been tracking public opinion of the Kardashians. In the past, attitudes have generally remained […]

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Public Opinion About Fantasy Sites is Crystal Clear. Does Anyone Care?

You only need to watch about five minutes of sports content right now to get a feel for the amount of money connected to daily fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel. It seems every other commercial, during prime events, is for one of them. Prize money is being awarded in the millions. Nearly every […]

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Predicting the Oscars Doesn’t Suck as Much as Predicting Grammys

A little more than a month ago, we tried to predict the Grammys. You might question the wisdom of trying to predict something that’s inherently unpredictable, but hey, above all else we were trying to have fun and in the end the whole exercise turned out . . . okay. We certainly wish we’d done […]

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What Does Your Favorite Movie Genre Say About You?

It’s no surprise to movie studios that the way a movie is produced and marketed can significantly impact the type of people who show up at the theaters to watch it. We thought it would be interesting to look at the piles of data we have about movie genre preference to see if we could […]

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Happy 50th Birthday James Bond

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the famed James Bond series and, because we’re a bit burned out on political research, we thought we would share some of our data on the most popular actor to play 007. Over the past year, we have asked 14,340 consumers across the United States who they considered […]

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