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reportJun 18, 2018

Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News

The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better in differentiating factual statements from opinions.
reportJun 18, 2018

5. Tying statements to news outlets had limited impact on Americans’ capacity to identify statements as factual or opinion

Given the strong partisan differences in the trust and use of various news outlets identified in the Center’s other research, this study separately examined the impact of adding news outlet attributions to factual and opinion statements. Overall, the attribution had a limited impact, except for one place: Republicans were modestly more likely than Democrats to […]
short readsJun 21, 2018

Key findings on the global rise in religious restrictions

Restrictions on religion continued to climb in 2016 around the world, the second year in a row of increases.
reportJul 26, 2018

Detecting subjectivity and tone with automated text analysis tools

There are a variety of tools that can help researchers analyze large volumes of written material. In this post, I’ll examine two of these…
reportJun 21, 2018

Global Uptick in Government Restrictions on Religion in 2016

Restrictions on religion increased in 2016 for the second straight year. Nationalist parties and organizations played an increasing role in harassment of religious minorities, especially in Europe.
reportMay 23, 2018

A Fundamental Challenge to U.S. Leadership Abroad

Special to RealClear World In the weeks ahead, and in the wake of Washington visits by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, there is much at stake for the United States and its key allies in Europe. The U.S. decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal raises questions about future […]
short readsJul 9, 2018

NATO is seen favorably in many member countries, but almost half of Americans say it does too little

Across all 12 NATO member countries, a median of 61% approved of the alliance last spring. Many Americans say NATO does too little to solve global problems.
short readsJul 9, 2018

Americans are closely divided over value of medical treatments, but most agree costs are a big problem

Americans have mixed views about the overall value of medical treatments today, though many say science has generally improved the quality of U.S. health care.
reportAug 28, 2018

Using supervised machine learning to quantify political rhetoric

Several posts on this blog have examined unsupervised methods of natural language processing. These algorithms and models can help…
short readsApr 19, 2018

Q&A: How Pew Research Center identified bots on Twitter

For a recent study on automated accounts and Twitter, we had to answer a fundamental question: Which accounts are bots and which accounts aren’t? Read a Q&A with Stefan Wojcik, a computational social scientist at the Center and one of the report’s authors, on how he and his colleagues navigated this question.

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Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News

5. Tying statements to news outlets had limited impact on Americans’ capacity to identify statements as factual or opinion

Key findings on the global rise in religious restrictions

Detecting subjectivity and tone with automated text analysis tools

Global Uptick in Government Restrictions on Religion in 2016

A Fundamental Challenge to U.S. Leadership Abroad

NATO is seen favorably in many member countries, but almost half of Americans say it does too little

Americans are closely divided over value of medical treatments, but most agree costs are a big problem

Using supervised machine learning to quantify political rhetoric