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It won't matter. People are immune to being corrected. They have to correct themselves. "An extensive literature addresses citizen ignorance, but very little
by AndrewKemendo 6y ago
It won't matter. People are immune to being corrected.
They have to correct themselves.
"An extensive literature addresses citizen ignorance, but very little research focuses on misperceptions. Can these false or unsubstantiated beliefs about politics be corrected? Previous studies have not tested the efficacy of corrections in a realistic format. We conducted four experiments in which subjects read mock news articles that included either a misleading claim from a politician, or a misleading claim and a correction. Results indicate that corrections frequently fail to reduce misperceptions among the targeted ideological group. We also document several instances of a “backfire effect” in which corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-010-9112-2?TB%20iframe=true&width=921.6&height=4638.6&error=cookies_not_supported&code=1a71d8d1-e963-432b-851e-17771c195849 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-010-9112-2?...
- 0xy 6y agoOf course it's going to backfire when partisan groups like Politifact and the Washington Post are running the entire operation, too. Especially around politics, there's basically no such thing as fact. If politician X says that plan Y reduces problem Z by 13% but actually it was only reduced by 11.5%, technically he's wrong but the classification of his statement becomes subjective. This is where bias seeps in. If a right wing politician is off by 1% in a statement it's "mostly false". If a left wing politician is off by 1% it's "mostly true". I don't trust ANY of these organizations to "fact check" anything because they're utterly discredited.