What percentage of U.S. news articles about facial recognition will have a negative framing between July 1 and September 30, 2020, inclusive?
Context. Facial recognition technology is becoming increasingly controversial due to fears about widespread surveillance. The sentiment of media coverage on the topic is a proxy for public attitudes.
Background and resolution details. This question is based on data from Nexis Metabase (2020), a corpus of global news articles on a variety of topics. An article is about facial recognition if it mentions the term "facial recognition." Nexis uses a machine-learning trained sentiment-analysis model to evaluate the sentiment of an article on a scale of -1 to 1. For this question, an article has negative sentiment if its sentiment is less than 0. This question resolves when CSET receives Nexis data through September 30, 2020.
The data underlying the graph is here.
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The answer is 43.9%, the lowest percentage since we started tracking the data in 2015.
| Possible Answer | Correct? | Final Crowd Forecast |
|---|---|---|
| Less than 30% | 5% | |
| Between 30% and 40%, inclusive | 11% | |
| More than 40% but less than or equal to 50% | 28% | |
| More than 50% but less than or equal to 60% | 33% | |
| More than 60% | 24% |
