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Scientific Survey Shows Voters Across the Political Spectrum Are Ideologically Deluded
Just Facts ^ | April 16, 2021 | James D. Agresti

Posted on 04/18/2021 9:13:17 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat

....The survey also found that a considerable portion of Trump voters have adopted some progressive fallacies spread by the media. For instance, 38% of Trump voters (and 86% of Biden voters) think that the number of strong-to-violent tornadoes in the U.S. has generally increased since the 1950s. In reality, they have slightly decreased.

That disconnect between fact and perception accords with numerous reports that link tornadoes and other extreme weather events to global warming, even though such events have occurred at a roughly level pace for as far back in time as reliable data extends....

The survey was comprised of 21 questions posed to U.S. residents who regularly vote. It was conducted just after the 2020 presidential election by Triton Polling & Research, an academic research firm that applied scientific survey methods to optimize accuracy.

Results for All Voters

For each question, voters were offered a selection of two or more answers, one of which was true. Voters also had the opportunity to say they were unsure.

On average, voters gave the correct answer 38% of the time, gave an incorrect answer 51% of the time, and said they were unsure 10% of the time.

A majority of voters gave the correct answer to only 4 of the 21 questions.

Results by Ideology of Falsehood

Among questions in which the wrong answers accorded with partisan agendas, an average of 57% of answers were liberally misinformed, while 28% were conservatively misinformed. In other words, voters were twice as likely to believe certain progressive myths than conservative ones.

For all 10 of the questions in which the electorate was most deluded, the wrong answers they gave concurred with progressive narratives propagated by the media. ....

(Excerpt) Read more at justfacts.com ...


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So it seems just as we suspected that we on the right are more right.
1 posted on 04/18/2021 9:13:17 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Sorry, but anyone who leads with a picture inferring the myth that ostriches bury their heads in the sand, loses all credibility with me even before I get to the words they may have written.


2 posted on 04/18/2021 9:20:21 AM PDT by Edward Teach ( )
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To: CheshireTheCat

btt


3 posted on 04/18/2021 9:35:04 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: CheshireTheCat

For Later read


4 posted on 04/18/2021 9:45:37 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: Edward Teach

Your loss.


5 posted on 04/18/2021 9:54:35 AM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: Edward Teach

So the reaction to the ostrich myth is to act like a metaphorical ostrich? Got it.


6 posted on 04/18/2021 10:22:37 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Paradox

Great article. Always good to learn facts


7 posted on 04/18/2021 10:32:07 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: Edward Teach

Sorry, I don’t see any ostrich. And it got it’s point across, didn’t it. You oviously got the meaning, so it was very effective.


8 posted on 04/18/2021 10:32:27 AM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: CheshireTheCat

It claims 10% of deaths now are due to the China Virus. I call BS. The RATs delibertly me inflated the numbers to heighten the fear.


9 posted on 04/18/2021 10:43:36 AM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V!)
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To: Edward Teach

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10 posted on 04/18/2021 11:25:33 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

76% of Trump voters think that the average income of middle-income households fell during the Obama administration. In reality, their inflation-adjusted average income rose by $5,300 during this period.


Some interesting loops in that question.

‘Middle class income’

‘Average vs median’


11 posted on 04/18/2021 9:02:13 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Yeah, I was thinking that too. What is more meaningful is the growth of income within quintiles of income-earners.


12 posted on 04/19/2021 6:37:14 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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