Author: Bryan Clark / Source: The Next Web
A new Pew Research Center survey found that only around one in four American adults could, practically-speaking, tell the difference between factual statements and opinion.
The poll, which surveyed more than five thousand adults, asked those involved to correctly identify five factual statements and five opinionated statements.
The results were bad, real bad. Only 26 percent of those surveyed correctly identified all five factual statements. They were slightly better at identifying opinion, with 35 percent spotting all five correctly.The statements, in case you were wondering, seem rather straightforward. For example:
- Spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid make up the largest portion of the U.S. federal budget.
- Healthcare costs per person in the U.S. are the highest in the developed world.
- President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
- Immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally are a very big problem for the country today.
- Government is always wasteful and…
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