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Originally Posted by crockett
Who would of thought. 
The study found that people who trust their gut feelins vs actual facts are usually wrong and will often double down after being proven wrong. Oh gee which group of people could that be????
https://news.osu.edu/news/2017/09/18/fake-news/
People who tend to trust their intuition or to believe that the facts they hear are politically biased are more likely to stand behind inaccurate beliefs, a new study suggests.
And those who rely on concrete evidence to form their beliefs are less likely to have misperceptions about high-profile scientific and political issues, said Kelly Garrett, the lead researcher and a professor of communication at The Ohio State University
Imagine that... |
"or to believe that the facts they hear are politically biased are more likely to stand behind inaccurate beliefs"
Wait... what?
Who funded this? Read that sentence out loud and try to take it serious. Translation: "Believe everything the mainstream media (for-profit corporations) tell you, or you're wrong"
Meanwhile, CNN themselves admitted all they spread is quote "bullshit" and quote "a big nothing burger"...
On a more serious note, I have seen these studies about "fake news". The problem with it is that they treat mainstream media by default as 'real' news. They do not see the bigger, more complex scope of what a news corporation drives and the tactics they use.
In reality, mainstream media could not be any more further from reporting actual facts. So the 'neutral' line in studies towards fake news is always completely off from the start, making these kind of studies worthless.
People like simple, easily identifiable bad guys, like in a 60s Bond movie. The layers, subtlety and professionalism of mainstream media in spreading propaganda is too complex for them. But Alex Jones in a lunatic rage talking about gay fish fits the mold perfectly. The cartoonish bad guy steals the thunder of the real bad guys each and every time, simply because the average joe is not interested in the real bad guys - it doesn't release dopamine, it is not sensational (to them) because it's not that obvious (to them).