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The focus of this paper is the relation of different patterns of information-seeking to different levels of public knowledge in three areas—public affairs, science, and health. The data come from secondary analysis of national sample surveys, and were obtained as by-products of a broad study of public knowledge in the United States.
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Wade et al. (1969) studied this question.
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