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Originally Posted by Fuzz

LOL, to summarize, CPC voters tend to be misinformed, and this poll is bias becuase it shows that.


OK, if you don't like this one there are no shortage of others that show similar results. And it shouldn't be surprising, since it's pretty easy to look at where they get their information from. If Rebel or Western Standard are your sources of information, you are guaranteed to be misinformed. This isn't a debatable point, it's fact.

Surely you are smarter than using this line of thought.

Let's bring a statement that would counterbalance.

Recycling plastics have become very efficient and we now recycle over 50% of all plastics.

True or false?

Do you believe Liberals / NDP / Green will do better on this statement than CPC voters?

I don't read Rebel or Western Standard, most people don't including most CPC voters.

But as some readers read Rebel or Western Standard and get fed misinformation and believe in such misinformation, so too does left-leaning folks, just different kind.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...erent-reasons/

New research suggests both liberals and conservatives are motivated to believe fake news, and dismiss real news that contradicts their ideologies

Are Liberals and Conservatives Equally Susceptible to Fake News?

The answer is yes. The researchers found that people on both sides of the traditional left-right divide are equally likely to believe political news that is consistent with their ideology, and to disbelieve news that is inconsistent with their side. For instance, liberals judged the anti-Trump story as being much more legitimate than the pro-Trump story, with conservatives showing the opposite judgment.

Interestingly, these effects were even more pronounced when they replaced binary party preferences with party warmth judgments. In other words, if you are way left or way right you are even more likely to cognitively distort yourself in all sorts of ways to either believe the news (if it supports your party) or bend over backwards to disconfirm it (if it disconfirms your party's line). The researchers conclude that "people infer news legitimacy in a way that appears motivated by their own ideological positioning." These findings are very much in line with Jonathan Haidt's account of motivated reasoning being a big source of divisions in politics and religion.

This finding is also consistent with other research suggesting that there are symmetries among both liberals and conservatives when it comes to motivated reasoning. For instance, liberals and conservatives are similarly motivated to avoid exposure to one another's opinions, and are similarly motivated to deny scientific findings that are inconsistent with their ideology.

The researchers suggest that conservatives may be most susceptible on average to fall prey to fake news stories, considering that they are the group most likely to be exposed to such material online, and they are also the group with the highest average levels of faith in intuition.

However, liberals aren't off the hook, as they are statistically more likely to use investment in the righteousness of their political viewpoints to believe politically-consistent news stories, and their higher level of need for cognition to delegitimize politically-inconsistent news stories. The researchers found that liberals who scored higher in a measure of "collective narcissism"-- which measures a tendency to invest in, and perceive superiority of, your political views--showed exaggerated legitimacy judgments for the politically-consistent (e.g., anti-Trump) fake news stories. This data is interesting because it suggests that collective narcissism is not only a right-wing populist phenomenon.

Effectively, there is more misinformation targeting right-leaning folks, but both sides are susceptible to it (as you show here).

If you poll based on those pieces of misinformation specifically only targeting the right, you get this bias. Your statement of 'this is fact' only feeds your own misinformation.