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The Pew Research Center released a report in 2024 showing that these so-called opt-in surveys did a particularly bad job of capturing the attitudes of adults under 30 and Latino adults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

"I got asked what job you would do and I said bin man. It's not a bad job."

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

Popular artificial-intelligence tools like ChatGPT also do a bad job of answering questions about student loans, research has found.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

During a meeting about the company’s reporting structure, Brockman mentioned that Altman had told him and Sutskever that they could fire Altman if they ever thought he was doing a bad job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

I know Herman E. Calloway was trying to work me like a dog, but he was doing a real bad job at it.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis


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