Free access to this report may expire on 2/2/7. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.

What is the point of taking opinion polls about facts ("What do Muslims think of the U.S.?")? Why not ask Muslims what they think of the U.S. and add some facts to the dialogue, rather than cementing speculation? There are valid opinion questions in the poll, but they're overshadowed by a couple of weak "What do you think the facts are?" questions.

I fail to find any revealing or important information in this study. To conduct a poll in America about world geography, politics or populations is, in my opinion, a wasteful undertaking, as the average American's general knowledge of these subjects is unfortunately very limited. Add to that the fact that the story quote is misleading at best when compared to the findings of the poll itself is not helpful either: "Only a minority of Americans claim to have unfavorable opinions of Muslim countries". The poll results - as I read them - claim that about 36% of Americans say they have an unfavorable opinion of Muslim countries, while 22% have favorable opinions. The remainder are either neutral or have no opinions.