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And also, the more news you read, the higher the perception gap. The problematic effects of education don't surprise me at all though. I've felt for a while th
by repolfx 7y ago
And also, the more news you read, the higher the perception gap.
The problematic effects of education don't surprise me at all though. I've felt for a while that more education seemed to make people somehow less intelligent in some strange, hard to define way.
I think it's partly that people's defences are down - they think "I have a PhD so I couldn't possibly be manipulated or misled, unlike the plebs who left school at 16".
It may also be due to people with higher education being more willing to uncritically accept anything said by 'experts' (i.e. their academic peers), without being willing to double check it against common sense or man-on-the-street reasoning. I've noticed that people with less education - we probably shouldn't call it worse education, given these findings - are much more willing to reject statements by academics if they're counterintuitive or seem to contradict lived experience. Whereas people with doctorates almost never do, regardless of how bizarre or absurd the claims being made are. Journalists likewise seem to be more likely to fall for bad science than they once were and I wonder if that's due to journalists always having degrees, these days.
This is perhaps one of the problems leading to the replication crisis.
- bassman9000 7y agoAnd also, the more news you read, the higher the perception gap. If readers are educated, isn't then that news are shit?
- 18pfsmt 7y agoOne should understand the concept of "yellow journalism:" -scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news - lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings -use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudoscience, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts -emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips -dramatic sympathy with the "underdog" against the system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism It emerged with discussing collectivism vs. individualism. We know who lost (i.e. 1989). Some people want to forget and rehash this stupidity. It's not clear if they understand that these ideas mean "war." When I retire in ~15 years I just want to catch fish with barb-less hooks, but the lunatics are making that prospect unlikely.
- repolfx 7y agoNo. The effects of reading news and getting more degrees are the same - your perception gets further from the ground truth established by surveys. These surveys are called "ideological turing tests" by the way. They usually find that conservatives understand leftists much better than the other way around, which is an interesting finding by itself.