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- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Extroverts become tired from prolonged social interaction.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Bilingual education programs improve academic outcomes for children from low-income families.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Neutralizing antibodies play a pivotal role in mediating protection against virus infections including polio, measles, hepatitis and influenza.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Heavy social media use is associated with higher rates of eating disorders in adolescents.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Classical Athens was a democracy even though women, slaves, and foreign residents could not vote.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The US First Amendment permits limits on speech such as incitement to imminent lawless action and true threats.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sugary drink sales in Philadelphia fell 38 percent after the city adopted its soda tax in 2017.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Bilingual education improves students' academic achievement.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Instant-runoff voting can fail monotonicity, meaning a candidate can lose because voters ranked that candidate higher.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Interpol employees investigate crimes across borders and arrest criminals themselves.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Global extreme poverty has increased or stayed the same since 1990.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Susan Collins voted to support the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Inflation-adjusted median earnings of American workers were higher in the 1970s than they are today.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Prohibition-era American gangsters used the Thompson submachine gun in violent crimes.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that In the United States, police require a person to be missing for 24 hours before accepting a missing person report.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The term 420 originated from a Los Angeles police code or California penal code for marijuana.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Mental illness causes people to commit violent crime.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The death penalty reduces crime rates through deterrence.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Under US federal law, transporting stolen goods worth $5,000 or more across a state line is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. 2314.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Facebook is a social networking website and app owned by Meta.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that In Canadian securities law, a reporting issuer is a public company.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ukraine is a republic with a semi-presidential system of government.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that James Gunn still works for Marvel Studios rather than DC Studios.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Skydance Media owns Paramount following the 2025 merger.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The proposed 2026 California billionaire tax would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on the net worth of California residents worth more than $1 billion.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in the referendum of 23 June 2016 by 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Singapore government runs a dating and matchmaking service called the Social Development Network.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows a US president to deploy the military domestically to suppress an insurrection or enforce federal law.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Newton's law of gravitation is still used today.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Punitive damages are taxable as income.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Boyle's law applies to real gases under all conditions.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The rich pay a lower effective tax rate than the middle class.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Sugary drink taxes cause people to buy untaxed alternatives.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle led to food safety laws.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Social anxiety disorder is a type of phobia.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Companies can reduce tax liability through deductions.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Social media increases charitable donations.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Chernobyl disaster directly caused many immediate deaths.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The government has confirmed the existence of UFOs.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Categorical Imperative is Kant’s principle that one should act only on maxims that one could will to become universal law.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Forensic linguistics is a field used in crime investigations.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Members of the Irgun disguised as Arab workmen and hotel waiters planted a bomb in the basement of the King David Hotel.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Social groups can make more accurate collective judgements than expert individuals.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Media influence plays a significant role in a person's decision to use food supplements.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Supreme Court decision in Commr. v. Glenshaw Glass Co. (1955) defines income as any undeniable accession to wealth that is clearly realized by the taxpayer and over which the taxpayer has complete dominion.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Amakusa Shirō was the leader of the Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising of Japanese Roman Catholics against the Shogunate.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Individuals may be driven to match what they perceive to be the social norm.?
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