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To: Red Badger
In Study 2, researchers presented the aforementioned 268 American adults with 30 news headlines covering five controversial topics: abortion rights, immigration policy, gun ownership, gay rights, and universal basic income.

The study is biased in its selection of topics.

10 posted on 01/07/2026 7:12:08 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Exactly. Abortion rights versus right to life. Abortion rights deliberately leaves out the actual baby in the discussion. Like the early 19th Century argument of property rights and states rights versus freedom from slavery or abolition.

Gun ownership? How about right to keep and bear arms and self defense?

Gay rights? Who is throwing gays off tall buildings? In the USA, if you’re gay, nobody cares. What rights are not being allowed?

Universal basic income is so one sided it doesn’t even have an opposite name. The government should take money from some and give it to others is all it is. Governments don’t have free money. There is no free money to give to people. It always will come from other people’s labors.


17 posted on 01/07/2026 7:35:43 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Carry_Okie

Most notable is the absence of economic topics: Private vs Public property. Taxes. Welfare to the poor. Welfare to NFL team owners. Zoning, Building Codes.

And absence of education/indoctrination topics.


26 posted on 01/07/2026 11:56:44 AM PST by spintreebob
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