A Dartmouth study on how misperceptions persist in the general public, and how media corrections may actually make people believe them even more…
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what youknow for sure that just ain’t so.”–Mark Twain
inski et al. 2000, Gilens 2001). Some scholars respond that citizens can
successfully use heuristics, or information shortcuts, as a substitute for detailed factual information in some circumstances…
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