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What percentage of American adults would trust health information from scientists a great deal?
30.8% of American adults would trust health information from scientists a great deal - about 31 in every 100, or 3 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- Household Pulse Survey
- What it measured
- HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item HLTHTRUST_SCI (“In general, how much would you trust information about health or medical topics from scientists?”), counting responses 1=A great deal, as a share of adults who answered (13.4% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table health5b. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 11,480.
- Population
- U.S. adults aged 18 and over
- Year
- 2026
- 95% confidence interval
- 28.49% to 33.11% (derived from the published standard error)
Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data
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