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55.5% of M’sians think online info is reliable, UCSI poll finds

Research centre says survey on digitalisation acceptance and readiness involves 827 respondents, has 3% error margin

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 20 Mar 2021 9:15AM

55.5% of M’sians think online info is reliable, UCSI poll finds
The UCSI Poll Research Centre survey finds that people know digitalisation is coming and welcome it. – Pixabay pic, March 20, 2021

KUALA LUMPUR – A total 55.5% of Malaysians say Internet information is sometimes trustworthy while 13.5% do not think so, according to a new UCSI Poll Research Centre (UCSI-PRC) survey.

In a statement yesterday, UCSI-PRC said their survey on digitalisation acceptance and readiness, involving 827 respondents in Malaysia, had a 3% margin of error.

The survey also found that 44% of people think that technology will help increase their income, 37.4% think it will do the opposite, while 6% think it will not make a difference.

“In the survey, 40% of respondents admitted to being more productive with the use of an electronic device, 46.4% said sometimes they were more productive and 13.5% said their productivity had nothing to do with electronic device use,” the statement added.

In the survey, 43% believed jobs would be taken over by new technologies, while 38.6% believed it would create more jobs.

UCSI-PRC said the survey showed that people know digitalisation is coming and welcome it.

“Although digitalisation is good, it can cause information overload, therefore people must learn to adapt and filter information,” the statement said. – Bernama, March 20, 2021

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