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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 […]

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    In Clinton’s March to Nomination, Many Democrats Changed Their Minds

    Survey report Hillary Clinton led Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination in every Pew Research Center survey conducted throughout the party’s primaries. But many Democratic voters vacillated in their candidate support throughout this period. Today, however, overwhelming shares of all Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters – including 90% who consistently supported Sanders for the nomination […]