This report reveals how registered voters across the political spectrum view global warming and how they think citizens and government should address it. Consistent with our prior surveys, we find that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to be convinced that human-caused global warming is happening and to support climate […] Read more »
AI: Most Americans seem more afraid of the intelligence of their fellow humans than that of robots
Welcome to the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll for April 2016. This month’s poll probes the world of artificial intelligence, a term said to be first used by pioneering Stanford professor John McCarthy more than 60 years ago. He described it as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” CONT. […] Read more »
Cancer research ‘moonshot’ wins enthusiastic support in STAT-Harvard poll
The American public has enormous confidence in the progress being made against cancer — perhaps more than warranted by actual treatment gains — and their faith is translating into overwhelming support for the Obama administration’s proposal to increase cancer research spending, a new STAT-Harvard poll finds. CONT. David Nather, STAT Read more »
Climate Change’s Unseen Consensus
… In a new study published in Science magazine last week, Eric Plutzer and colleagues report a finding that should alarm the nation: Only 30 percent of middle-school and 45 percent of high-school science teachers in the U.S. are aware of the fact that nearly all climate scientists are convinced […] Read more »
Climate confusion among U.S. teachers
Although more than 95% of active climate scientists attribute recent global warming to human causes and most of the general public accepts that climate change is occurring, only about half of U.S. adults believe that human activity is the predominant cause, which is the lowest among 20 nations polled in […] Read more »
Why People Are Confused About What Experts Really Think
Given the complexities of the modern world, we all have to rely on expert opinion. … And to find out what the experts think, we typically rely on the news media. This creates a challenge for journalists: There are many issues on which a large majority of experts agree but […] Read more »