Quiz — Can you tell an opinion from a fact?

We've talked a bit in the past few posts about the distinction between opinions and data. To follow up on this topic, we’re going to give you a little quiz. The following are statements about our upcoming work trip. Which ones are data (facts or feelings, either true or false) and which are opinions (judgments, speculations, conclusions, etc.)? Keep track of your guesses, and we’ll post the answers in just a few days, before we leave. Good luck!

1. We have exciting news!
2. We (Ben & Amy) are traveling to Sweden for a week, starting this Friday.
3. During that period, we do not expect to post any new blog entries.
4. The weather where we’re staying will be worse than in Cambridge, but not terribly cold.
5. At this time of year, Stockholm receives a little less than nine hours of daylight, and the average temperature is in the high 30s.
6. Learning this came as a relief to Amy, who was not certain that there would be any daylight at all.
7. Amy has a very low tolerance for cold, dark weather.
8. Ben is thinking less about the weather than about the social interactions they’ll have.
9. He is proud to have taught himself the Swedish language over the summer, and looks forward to trying it out.
10. He has learned a lot of the common phrases that tourists need to know.
11. The two of us will be teaching for three days — Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
12. We’re going to enjoy working with our first all-Swedish group.
13. And they should all love SAVI, because it’s a wonderfully useful communication system.