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    America’s Complex Relationship With Guns

    Americans have broad exposure to guns, whether they personally own one or not. About seven-in-ten say they have fired a gun at some point and 42% currently live in a gun-owning household.

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    Theme 7: The need grows for algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight

    The respondents to this canvassing offered a variety of ideas about how individuals and the broader culture might respond to the algorithm-ization of life. They noted that those who create and evolve algorithms are not held accountable to society and argued there should be some method by which they are. They also argued there is […]

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    Methodology

    Survey methodology The survey analysis in this report is based on two waves of an omnibus telephone survey conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI). PSRAI obtained interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,000 adults living in the continental United States. Telephone interviews were conducted by landline (1,000) and cell phone (1,000, including […]

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    Theme 1: Algorithms will continue to spread everywhere

    Nearly all of these respondents see the great advantages of the algorithms that are already changing how connected institutions and people live and work. A significant majority expects them to continue to proliferate – mostly invisibly – and expects that there will be an exponential rise in their influence. They say this will bring many […]

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    2. Americans’ views about and consumption of organic foods

    Americans’ appetite for organic foods has grown steadily over the past few decades. According to the Economic Research Service, retail sales of organic foods more than doubled from 1994 to 2014 with a steady uptick of about 10% annual growth in retail sales over the past several years.[13. numoffset=”13″ Catherine Greene, Seth J. Wechsler, Aaron […]

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    2. Americans’ views about and consumption of organic foods

    Americans’ appetite for organic foods has grown steadily over the past few decades. According to the Economic Research Service, retail sales of organic foods more than doubled from 1994 to 2014 with a steady uptick of about 10% annual growth in retail sales over the past several years.[13. numoffset=”13″ Catherine Greene, Seth J. Wechsler, Aaron […]

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    Theme 2: Things will stay bad, Part II

    Many of these respondents also cited another reason for concern about the future of the social climate online. They focused on the incentive structures of online life and argued: Things will stay bad because tangible and intangible economic and political incentives support trolling. Participation = power and profits. It’s a brawl, a forum for rage […]

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    4. White House responses and policy impact of petitions

    In the nearly five years that “We the People” has existed, 268 petitions have reached the signature threshold to require a response from the White House. The White House has written 227 different responses, although three more were pending as of the time data for this report were collected.[7. numoffset=”7″ Since that time, the White […]

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    Theme 3: Humanity and human judgment are lost when data and predictive modeling become paramount

    Many respondents said that as people put too much faith in data, humanity can be lost. Some argued that because technology corporations and, sometimes, governments are most often the agencies behind the code, algorithms are written to optimize efficiency and profitability without much thought about the possible societal impacts of the data modeling and analysis. […]

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