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Science and the future
A strong majority of respondents, 76% thought that advances in science and technology will change every- day life for the better over the next 10 – 20 years. 13% expected a turn for the worse.
Respondents identifying with the upper (86%) or lower (81%) middle class expected scientific and technological progress to change everyday life for the better somewhat more often than working-class identifiers (65%).*
Coalition Party (90%) and Green Party (86%) supporters shared this view more often than Left Alliance (73%) or Finns Party (67%) supporters.*