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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Given the political slant of the questions that were asked, I wonder if the results have something to do with older people being more conservative, and therefore less likely to accept the factual statements as factual owing to their political beliefs and motivated reasoning.

For example, had the factual statements been things like "On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was duly elected president of the United States", or "Millions of immigrants in the United States today are here illegally", or "A fetus has the ability to feel pain during the second trimester of pregnancy", I wonder what the results would have been.

Basically this. If the actual intent of the study was to determine who is better at sorting fact from opinion, you'd expect the questions to be totally inane and not politically charged at all.

You mean a study like this had underlining motives?! I am shocked!