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Old 07-31-2018, 05:15 PM   #30
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Default The Pew Reseach Center Study (published in June 2018)

The Pew Research Center is an nonpartisan think-tank which often covers troubling social issues at hand by providing in-depth studies and articles about such things.

I came across an interesting Study, today, which was recently published in June of 2018. I thought it was an superbly executed study and found the article very enlightening. It's an great opportunity to examine how internal bias can at times keep people from understanding the vital difference between facts vs opinion. I hope other's enjoy reading this article too.

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Title of Article and Study: Trust, Facts and Democracy: Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News

Author: Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Michael Barthel, and Nami Sumida.

Overview:

Overview
-Republicans and Democrats are more likely to think news statements are factual when they appeal to their side – even if they are opinions.
-News brand labels in this study had a modest impact on separating factual statements from opinion.
-When Americans call a statement factual they overwhelmingly also think it is accurate; they tend to disagree with factual statements they incorrectly label as opinions.

About the study
1. Overall, Americans identified more statements correctly than incorrectly, but sizable portions got most wrong.
2. The ability to classify statements as factual or opinion varies widely based on political awareness, digital savviness and trust in news media.
3. Republicans and Democrats more likely to classify a news statement as factual if it favors their side – whether it is factual or opinion.
4. Americans overwhelmingly see statements they think are factual as accurate, mostly disagree with factual statements they incorrectly label as opinions.
5. Tying statements to news outlets had limited impact on Americans’ capacity to identify statements as factual or opinion.

Acknowledgments
Methodology
Appendix A: Measuring capacity to classify statements as factual or opinion
Appendix B: Detailed tables

Opening Excerpt:

In today’s fast-paced and complex information environment, news consumers must make rapid-fire judgments about how to internalize news-related statements – statements that often come in snippets and through pathways that provide little context. A new Pew Research Center survey of 5,035 U.S. adults examines a basic step in that process: whether members of the public can recognize news as factual – something that’s capable of being proved or disproved by objective evidence – or as an opinion that reflects the beliefs and values of whoever expressed it.

The findings from the survey, conducted between Feb. 22 and March 8, 2018, reveal that even this basic task presents a challenge. The main portion of the study, which measured the public’s ability to distinguish between five factual statements and five opinion statements, found that a majority of Americans correctly identified at least three of the five statements in each set. But this result is only a little better than random guesses. Far fewer Americans got all five correct, and roughly a quarter got most or all wrong. Even more revealing is that certain Americans do far better at parsing through this content than others. Those with high political awareness, those who are very digitally savvy and those who place high levels of trust in the news media are better able than others to accurately identify news-related statements as factual or opinion.

Additional Info: There is an section of charts and other sets of explanatory notes and an methodology and results section, which accompany the study. The study was conducted during the earlier part of this year (February 2018).

LINK TO ARTICLE:

http://www.journalism.org/2018/06/18...s-in-the-news/

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