America is Fucked
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"A Pew Research Center study published Monday found that Americans have difficulty distinguishing between statements of fact and statements of opinion.
The adults polled were presented with ten news-related statements, five that were demonstrably true or false and five that were opinions. Two “borderline” statements were also presented.
Only 26 percent of the adults polled recognized all five of the factual statements as such. About 35 percent recognized all of the opinion statements as opinion.
Most of the participants were able to correctly parse at least three of the five statements in each group.
One of the factual statements read, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States” and one of the opinion ones, “Democracy is the greatest form of government.”
The research found that “Republicans and Democrats were more likely to classify both factual and opinion statements as factual when they appealed most to their side.”
For example, 25 percent of Democrats classified the opinion statement, “Abortion should be legal in most cases,” as a fact while only 12 percent of Republicans said so.
Those with high political awareness were also much more likely to classify the statements correctly, as were those with higher trust in news media, and those who were digitally savvy.
The study polled 5,035 U.S. adults from between February 22 and March 8 of this year."
https://www.nationalreview.com/n…
This was in 2018...
- Probably because everyone is just watching tv and using social media instead of reading fucking books********
- Lol that more people got it wrong than right? How many answered “I dunno”********
- Oh wait, I see. Shit maybe I should read some more books ha!********
- Ppl don't say "idk" because it might seem they are stupid/weak - as in fact saying idk and reading up on it later is a sign of intelligence********
- American's for the most part are fucking morons. Just look at who they put into the Whitehouse, most dull-minded American's also still believe in God, LOL.utopian
- I didn't posted this to make fun, I posted this because it's fucking dangerous! The results of this affects us all unfortunately.********
- Lack of education is very dangerous for a society, look at Trumpism and Brexit and other examples around the world...********
- @utopian Americans* ffsake man get a grip lol********
- 2020 is not a bad year, it's just the first year in which stupidity compounded delivered tangible real world devastating results!********
- Probably because everyone is just watching tv and using social media instead of reading fucking books