"Article with headline "makes sense" to my worldview and fits with my stereotyped understanding of elderly people so everyone piles on to comment" Congratulati

"Article with headline "makes sense" to my worldview and fits with my stereotyped understanding of elderly people so everyone piles on to comment" Congratulations. We just did the same thing this article purports most people over 65 do most of the time. This study was comprised of people sharing their Facebook profile data with a research company. I wonder what their disclaimers said when they clicked "Yes"? > “When we bring up the age finding, a lot of people say, ‘oh yeah, that’s obvious,’” co-author Andrew Guess, a political scientist at Princeton University, told The Verge. “For me, what is pretty striking is that the relationship holds even when you control for party affiliation or ideology. The fact that it’s independent of these other traits is pretty surprising to me. It’s not just being driven by older people being more conservative.” Was his going-in hypothesis that older people are more conservative? Or that hoaxes only target conservatives? I am not saying the entire study is BS, merely that everyone saying "haha yeah it must be that 65+ don't have good BS detectors because they watched Ed Murrow on TV" may not have employed their own detector 100% when reading this article.