AI Daily by Jason Jeffrey Jones Productions
Are Democrats and Republicans polarizing on AI Support?
The current data support the following:
- Republican AI Support and Democrat AI Support changed at different rates over time.
- Initially, Democrats more strongly supported AI development than Republicans.
- Together, political party affiliation and time explain 2.2% of the variation in AI Support.
Yes, you may see and use the raw data.
For those who would like to see it, below are the results from a linear model fit. These results were used to generate the bolded statements above.
Call:
lm(formula = Support ~ Month_Number * Party, data = .)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-4.7853 -0.7853 0.2836 0.9721 2.3853
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 1.017687 0.054433 18.696 < 2e-16 ***
Month_Number 0.007207 0.005615 1.284 0.199
PartyRepublican -0.402970 0.094985 -4.242 2.25e-05 ***
Month_Number:PartyRepublican 0.061649 0.009090 6.782 1.32e-11 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.577 on 5173 degrees of freedom
(1 observation deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared: 0.02217, Adjusted R-squared: 0.0216
F-statistic: 39.1 on 3 and 5173 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
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