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We want you to imagine that you’re a researcher in the communication studies, an academic field that examines the processes of human communication

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We want you to imagine that you’re a researcher in the communication studies, an academic field that examines the processes of human communication. Researchers in communication studies are often interested in measuring and interpreting public opinion, or the attitudes and beliefs of the general population of a society. At Harvard researchers are studying various aspects of public opinion, including the extent to which prejudicial beliefs have (or have not) declined over time, changes in people’s trust toward mass media, and the attitudes of recent birth cohorts toward gender roles and sexual identities.
Your Mission: Imagine that you’re a communication studies working for a non-profit that promotes increasing public support and funding for scientific projects. To better understand how to promote public support for the natural and social sciences, your goal will be to answer the question:what are people’s opinions of various academic fields and what might explain people’s differing viewpoints?We will examine the dataset Science.RDatato answer this question. This is a set of actual data from a public opinion poll conducted in the United States.