Posted on 10/20/2022 11:57:25 AM PDT by devane617
People who deny the existence of facts believe in fake news more often. People with dark personality traits—those who always put their own benefit first—are particularly often affected.
These are the findings of a new study at the Human-Computer-Media Institute at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. "Some people believe fake news even when the scientific facts clearly contradict them," says psychologist Jan Philipp Rudloff. "We wanted to know why this is the case and investigate the role played by our ideas about the nature of knowledge and facts."
Rudloff, who is doing his Ph.D. at the department of communication psychologist Professor Markus Appel, conducted an extensive experiment on this matter. Together with Appel he confronted more than 600 individuals from the U.S. with various short headlines—such as " Trump's first three years created 1.5 million fewer jobs than Obama's last three." Participants were asked to assess the accuracy of these statements.
Epistemic beliefs were assessed with a questionnaire
Afterwards, they filled out a comprehensive questionnaire. Among other things, the participants were asked to indicate how much they trust their gut feeling when evaluating the accuracy of information, how important solid evidence is to them and how much they assume that politics, science and the media "fabricate" facts according to their interests.
"We summarize these aspects as 'epistemic beliefs,'" Rudloff explains—epistéme comes from the Greek and means "cognition" or "knowledge."
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Entirely so, but it goes one level deeper.
Indeed the evidence suggests that there never was human-to-human, air-spread Sars virus, although the media along with other elements completely created the illusion that there was. The nasty little jab bioweapon particles, probably can be spread by some degree through the air—but they are on a scale for which no practical mask would make any difference at all.
So they do indeed create a strawman in that few have publicly made the argument they use to supposedly show what they want. But they also further discredit and deflect something that is probably much closer to the truth than the dominant messaging — or carefully managed, skeptical countermessage.
This piece represents the ultimate in leftist psychobabble. They always present their findings as science, which it is anything but.
If we were to accept the premise that disagreement with the leftist agenda is a “dark personality trait”, then some of the article might be true. But we don’t accept that.
Therefore it is utterly false. It is merely another attempt to frame-up people who live in the real world as being wicked impediments to utopian progress (as they define it).
Take away implicit assumptions and their epistemology would have no grounds left.
Sounds tautological.
That’s a fact.
There is almost no difference between a psychologist and a witch doctor.
Except the witch doctor may accidentally do some good.
Phrenology used to be "science". Settled science at that.
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CNN and MSNBC viewers
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I think you’ve pretty much summarized it by parodying it.
I’d say that’s exactly right. I would further guess that their conclusions will not be very flattering to American conservatives, especially those who support Donald Trump.
I did. He said “there is no pandemic”. Then he got covid and died.
PhD
Pretty humorous Degree.
This obviously includes anyone who can't define "woman".
Most on our side knew the 50 'intelligence' thugs were lying - but every democrat I've known - (and seemingly all the MSM) - fell for the lie.
Dark is right. It's why democrats are so comfortable lying - they know their base... gullible and dark.
So like this "Dark Brandon" thing that the left thinks qualifies as a meme?"
“Dark personality traits make people susceptible to fake news”
I know one thing for sure. Dark personality traits sure make it lot more likely for them to report fake news.
In other words, the beliefs of people who are difficult to govern are fake.
Placing a label on a statement is not the determinate of the validity of the statement.
Rather, it is how the statement is measured and tested, as well as the observer's ability to understand the results, that matters.
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