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    2. U.S. public opinion on the future use of gene editing

    Gene editing giving babies much reduced risk of serious disease Respondents to the Pew Research Center survey read the following statement: “New developments in genetics and gene-editing techniques are making it possible to treat some diseases and conditions by modifying a person’s genes. In the future, gene-editing techniques could be used for any newborn, by […]

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    2. Voter general election preferences

    Ahead of the party conventions – and four months before the general election – Hillary Clinton holds a significant edge over Donald Trump in voter preferences. Among registered voters, 45% say they would vote for Hillary Clinton if the election were held today, compared with 36% who say they would vote for Donald Trump and […]

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    5. Digital distinctions

    Intentionality matters when it comes to online news consumption: those who seek the news out behave differently than those who stumble into news while doing other things online. Only about a third of digital news consumers (36%) actually prefer the online world as their primary platform for news.

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    Appendix A: References

    Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian V. Luke. 2016. “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2015.” Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, May. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201605.pdf DeNavas-Walt, Carmen and Bernadette D. Proctor. 2015. “Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau, September. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p60-252.pdf Kochhar, Rakesh. […]

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    Theme 3: Humanity and human judgment are lost when data and predictive modeling become paramount

    Many respondents said that as people put too much faith in data, humanity can be lost. Some argued that because technology corporations and, sometimes, governments are most often the agencies behind the code, algorithms are written to optimize efficiency and profitability without much thought about the possible societal impacts of the data modeling and analysis. […]

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    3. Shifting roles, responsibilities and relationships

    The census data point to a slowly developing but large shift in the roles, responsibilities and focuses of young adults that has led to significant changes in living arrangements. Many groups of young adults have already crossed a tipping point in which they are less likely to be pursuing committed relationships than to be living […]

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    5. Issues and the 2016 campaign

    On free trade, an issue area that has been front and center in the 2016 campaign, Trump supporters are broadly negative: They see trade agreements as having been bad for the U.S. and their own family’s finances and think the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be a bad thing for the country. Clinton supporters are on the […]