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Column: Telling fact from opinion isn’t easy

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Telling fact from opinion isn’t easy – just ask the more than 5,000 Americans the Pew Research Center surveyed in 2018 to see if they could tell whether a statement was a fact or an opinion.

They had to consider 10 statements – five factual and five opinion – and determine which category they fi...

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  1. The number of facts in the world are dwindling. A person’s biological sex was previously an immutable fact. Now it is an opinion. Math operations are usually factual, unless they are used in statistical analyses that support an agenda or policy (e.g., climate change) or making change at a fast food drive-thru window.

  2. Just for your information. People who believe in the corrupt and Marxist lame stream media don’t get crap right. They just regurgitate the Socialist Democrats AKA American Communist line. People that don’t want to be educated in the truth will never open their minds and try.
    Question- why does the Augusta Press online pay leftist opinion writers?

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