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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Confirmation Bias and a Gullible Electorate

Catherine Rampell notes:
“Many Americans believe a lot of dumb, crazy, destructive, provably wrong stuff. Lately this is especially (though not exclusively) true of Donald Trump voters, according to a new survey.
The survey, from the Economist/YouGov, was conducted in mid-December, and it finds that willingness to believe a given conspiracy theory is (surprise!) strongly related to whether that conspiracy theory supports one’s political preferences.”

Related:
Technology and Political Polarization
http://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2016/11/technology-news-and-political.html