Posted on 06/18/2018 2:24:32 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A new poll released Monday by the Pew Research Center suggests people are having difficulty telling the difference between fact and opinion.
People participating in the Pew study were provided five statements, including “spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid make up the largest portion of the U.S. Federal budget,” and five opinion statements, including “Democracy is the greatest form of government.”
They were also two statements that were ambiguous.
Just 26 percent of the adults surveyed correctly identified all five factual statements as factual, according to the study.
And just 35 percent identified all five opinion statements as opinion.
Pew also found that participants “were more likely to classify both factual and opinion statements as factual when they appealed most to their side.”
Nine-in-10 Democrats correctly identified the statement “President Barack Obama was born in the United States” as factual, while only 63 percent of Republicans saw it as factual.
At the same time, 37 percent of Democrats identified the statement “increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour is essential for the health of the U.S. economy” as factual and not as opinon. Only 17 percent of Republicans viewed this statement of opinion as fact.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The education of people has done this................
Not being able to tell fact from fiction is one of the many serious, debilitating symptoms of the chronic, no-cure mental disease known “liberalism”.
Yes Pew indeed.
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.
What is that factual, or opinion?
Democrats say factual, Republicans opinion. And the Pew research people said the Republicans were wrong
O’Rly!?
Did this really require or take a Pew research to conclude something that is generations old? =.=
Is that a fact, or just their opinion?
Yep , dumb as bags of rocks , and they all have 1st Amendment rights
There are never facts
Only opinions
Wow! PEW correctly labels the NYTimes as left leaning. My beeper is stunned,
The entire premise of this study is false and contradicts the whole need for a jury. In a trail, juries are finders of facts. They weigh evidence presented to them and use that evidence to decide what facts are.
Apply this to the BC issue. Evidence is presented to various people and based on each person’s weighing of the evidence the person comes to a conclusion if they accept the evidence or reject the evidence. If I were to reject the evidence presented that Obama published BC were legit doesn’t mean that I have rejected a fact nor does it mean that my rejection is an opinion.
These factoids need some Preparation F.
Lousy survey question. Some informed people still debate this. I'm not so sure myself.
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We don't actually know if that is fact or not. Thus the poll was flawed in my opinion.
[Is that a fact, or just their opinion?]
I can’t tell......
;)
[The education of people has done this................]
The edumucation of people has done this................
Eye no. Thay Will saye I B h8tin’.
Hey, did you hear the latest about the Kardashians?!!
This says more about Pew not being able to tell fact from opinion as the two examples in the excerpt prove. I didn’t read any more than that because the excerpt was such as insult to intelligence and logic.
That would be because fakestream presstitutes present opinion as fact.
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