In March and April 2026 the Allensbach Institute interviewed 1,057 people in Germany. It asked: when you deal with someone whose opinions are very different from yours, does that often upset you, or is it usually no problem for you? 61 percent said it was no problem. 21 percent said it upset them. In a larger group of friends, 30 percent said they like to give their opinion, and 28 percent prefer to let others talk. 57 percent said that there are people in their family or among their friends with whom it makes no sense to talk about certain political topics, because their opinions are too far apart. The FAZ published the results on 17 April 2026.