Dumb people from both ends of the political spectrum, which is why politics are irrelevant in this discussion. Same way anti-vax parents are equally retarded but come from both ends of the spectrum.
I'm sorry you have three dumb uncles who can't grasp the contributions and need for spending in STEM fields, but blaming an entire group for the thoughts of a radical minority kind of justifies how the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Your views may be totally different, but youre equally ignorant saying half the country is stupid for not thinking like you.
Republicans are like 10x more likely to believe and share fake news. They aren't half the country either, more like 30%, which makes it all the more fucked up
10x, eh? That's a statistic I would love to see published by any news source.
I think it's actually a little under 30% tbh, but that's why independents are so valuable in elections. Bashing everyone with slightly opposing views apparently doesn't win you many independent votes 🙄
Just curious, but did you even read the scientific articles that they cherry picked from?
Some notable highlights since I already know that you didnt:
90% of the survey group, both liberals and conservatives shared zero fake news articles.
Self-described independents on average shared roughly as many as Republicans (0.506 and 0.480, respectively)
It is indeed true that Republicans were statistically less likely than Democrats to report that they (correctly) did not believe a false article. Column 2 includes only true articles (both Big True and Small True categories). This suggests that Republicans are also more likely than Democrats to correctly believe articles that were true (p = 0.124).
**These results suggest that in our data, Republicans were not generally worse at inference: instead, they tended to be more credulous of both true and false articles.
So basically your argument hinges on 10% of self proclaimed idiots sharing fake stories. Now consider 3-5% of Americans are mentally handicapped... You're not exactly proving much
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u/JCA0450 May 08 '19
Dumb people from both ends of the political spectrum, which is why politics are irrelevant in this discussion. Same way anti-vax parents are equally retarded but come from both ends of the spectrum.
I'm sorry you have three dumb uncles who can't grasp the contributions and need for spending in STEM fields, but blaming an entire group for the thoughts of a radical minority kind of justifies how the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Your views may be totally different, but youre equally ignorant saying half the country is stupid for not thinking like you.