"A few years ago, the ACT released a study showing that K-12 teachers and college instructors believe discerning between fact and opinion is one of the most important things students can learn.
Unfortunately, less than 20 percent of first-year college students are able to tell the difference between these two items.
As it turns out, discerning between fact and opinion doesn’t appear to be the sole problem of millennials.
According to a recent Pew report, other Americans struggle with this task as well.
Pew explains:
According to a recent Pew report, other Americans struggle with this task as well.
Pew explains:
“A new Pew Research Center survey of 5,035 U.S. adults examines a basic step in that process: whether members of the public can recognize news as factual – something that’s capable of being proved or disproved by objective evidence – or as an opinion that reflects the beliefs and values of whoever expressed it.”
The study posed ten statements to participants, five of which were factual, five of which were opinions.
(Take the quiz here.)
Only one in four adults were able to correctly identify all the factual statements.
Read on.
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