Table 2.

Percentage of respondents who classify each statement correctly

	Respondent identifies as
	Liberal	Conserv.	p-value
Obama born in US	90%	67%	0.000
Immigrants have rights	72%	43%	0.000
Health care costs high in US	84%	72%	0.001
Immigrants are problem	86%	52%	0.000
Government is wasteful	78%	65%	0.073
Abortion should be legal	78%	86%	0.013
Wage increases are essential	69%	81%	0.036
ISIS lost territory	73%	72%	0.537
Social programs are much of budget	60%	62%	0.040
Muslim scrutiny wouldn’t reduce terrorism	69%	80%	0.028
Average correct	76%	68%	0.000
	Respondent identifies as
	White	Black	p-value
Obama born in US	76%	86%	0.062
Immigrants have rights	53%	58%	0.606
Immigrants are problem	65%	80%	0.000
Muslim scrutiny wouldn’t reduce terrorism	81%	62%	0.000
Average correct	69%	72%	0.575
	Respondent identifies as
	White	Hispanic	p-value
Obama born in US	76%	78%	0.508
Immigrants have rights	53%	64%	0.037
Immigrants are problem	65%	75%	0.077
Muslim scrutiny wouldn’t reduce terrorism	81%	62%	0.000
Average correct	69%	70%	0.225

Note.—Table displays the percentages of liberal/conservative respondents and white/Black/Hispanic respondents who accurately classified each statement as a fact or an opinion, and indicators of statistical significance (two tailed p-values) of the coefficients for conservative identity (compared to liberal identity), Black identity (compared to white identity), and Hispanic identity (compared to white identity). These p-values are drawn from logit models—displayed in Supplementary Material table SM.2 predicting correct classification of each statement by ideological and ethnoracial identification, controlling for sex, age, education, income, trust in media, and party identification. All data are weighted. Data Source: Pew Research Center (2018).