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 ...
So this is why ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and NY Times types survive. Now I know.
Now we know who watches CNN
Well, that explains 99% of leftists.
This would be valid ONLY if there were not so many fabricated "facts" in circulation.
Ask this guy to look at the crime stats/facts in the US and see if he believes that blacks are to blame. How about more than two genders. I could keep on but you get the pic.
Saying “there is no pandemic” is not the same as saying “the media invented the corona virus.”
Well that explains the Russia hoax.
That article is mind boggling, and not in a good way. Laughable that some effort was spent writing it.
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