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    Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion

    About two-in-three U.S. adults say fake news stories cause a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of current issues. And nearly a quarter say they have ever shared completely made-up news.

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    5. Hindu educational attainment

    Hindus have made substantial educational gains in recent decades. Hindu adults (ages 25 and older) in the youngest generation analyzed in the study, for example, have an average of 3.4 more years of schooling than those in the oldest generation. However, Hindus still have the lowest level of educational attainment of any major religious group […]

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    Appendix A: Detailed tables

    The following tables detail public knowledge about science by education, age, gender, race and ethnicity for each of the nine questions in the science knowledge index. These tables are followed by summary statistics showing the results of a series of statistical models predicting people’s beliefs about climate change and their views of climate scientists from […]

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    Appendix A: Detailed tables

    The following tables detail public knowledge about science by education, age, gender, race and ethnicity for each of the nine questions in the science knowledge index. These tables are followed by summary statistics showing the results of a series of statistical models predicting people’s beliefs about climate change and their views of climate scientists from […]

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    Key findings on how world religions differ by education

    A new Pew Research Center study, analyzing data from 151 countries, looks at education levels of Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and religiously unaffiliated adults ages 25 and older. Here are five key takeaways from the report.

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    Latinos and the New Trump Administration

    Hispanics are divided about what a Donald Trump presidency means for their place in America, according to a Pew Research Center survey of Hispanic adults taken before his inauguration.

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    1. Growth in annual U.S. births since 1970 driven entirely by immigrant moms

    In 2014 more than 900,000 births in the U.S. were to foreign-born mothers. That marks a threefold increase from 1970, when 274,000 babies were born to immigrant mothers[10. numoffset=”10″ The focus throughout most of this report is on maternal characteristics, due in part to the dearth of data available regarding fertility from the father’s perspective. […]