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There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan)

Nieman Journalism Lab · Joshua Benton · last updated

In 1964, Philip Converse published what would become one of the most cited papers in all of political science, “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics.” It was a result of a movement at the University of Michigan, where Converse taught, to do large-scale data analyses of the ideology of the American public — or, perhaps more accurately, the lack thereof.

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