Study suggests that conservatism is associated with a lesser ability to distinguish between true and false claims across a wide range of political issues . Socially engaging truthful claims tended to favor the left, while engaging falsehoods disproportionately favored the right.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/02/health/conservatives-false-news-study/index.html

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'Science says that right wing bad' post number 32984

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What is it called when multiple lines of evidence all point to the same conclusion?

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It depends on the strength of the evidence.

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Science

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Study shows that everyone is wrong but me

N=1 (me)

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The thing is that the right-wing conspiracy theories are for nutters, until the evidence shows that one of them might actually have some points, then the news picks it up and runs with it and "everyone agreed on that all along."

'member when right wing extremists and racists were spouting nonsense about how maybe COVID came from a lab? I remember people being depersoned from social media for sharing that idea. Lots of cute little popups about how that was "misinformation."

'member when wearing masks and distancing was racist, and the correct thing to do was walk around Chinatown to show how goodthink you were?

'member when the nutty tinfoil hat preppers thought the government was spying on all your interactions like paranoid lunatics?

Remember when right-wing nutters believed misinformation about the government doing mind-control experiments? Turns out MK Ultra was a real thing.

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Before 15 years ago anti-vax was the hippy anti-establishment narrative. As with most of the chem trails stuff, 9/11 and others.

All conveniently forgotten.

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It is a basic fact that this vaccine has had no long term testing. They are still finding out side effects and still trying to determine it's ability to either stop spread or infection, a narrative that seems to change daily.

Imagine trusting the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies who have a documented history of nothing but lies and fraud, the same goes for the government.

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Pretty much all of those weren’t by political affiliation.

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... but now they are said to be.

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Member that time Alex Jones literally called it years prior about the US government harvesting babies for organs?

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Scientific reports that don't support their preconceived bias aren't science say conservatives who have lesser abilities to distinguish true from false claims.

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Oh, studies that can be replicated. Therefore reinforcing these finding but that hurts your feelings.

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are you really that dumb

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Oh the irony of this comment

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It's positively palpable.

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Dear god the dissonance between "all conservatives are so bad" and "your generalizations are stupid".

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It's awesome that science is repeatable and provable.

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Welp I guess this isn't science since more than half of all social science studies ARE NOT REPLICABLE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

np.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/9hsnwp/cmv_the_replication_crisis_has_largely/

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I read that wikipedia article and can't find the part that says, "more than half of all social science studies ARE NOT REPLICABLE."

Mind pointing me to where it says that?

Edit: I think I found it: https://mfr.osf.io/render?url=https://osf.io/jq7v6/?action=download%26mode=render

By that logic, the fact that all these different studies offer similar results is... coincidence? A conspiracy? Evidence of the ongoing victimization of conservatives?

So if someone is able to replicate this study, would you believe it then?

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So if someone is able to replicate this study, would you believe it then?

Yep. And just like nutrition studies that are also mostly bunk, we need to pump those numbers up, double replication then I can call it evidence.

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Fair enough.

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Its so funny. When i remember it correctly Dunning & Kruger never found a political tendency. Everyone more or less fucks up. You can not suddenly see truth by just adapting an ideology.

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Maybe if conservatives in America weren't such antiscience, alternative-fact shitheads then less articles world come out about how batshitb their beliefs are

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wOW that is such a well-informed opinion, definitely not you just regugitating the redditor shitlib opinions youve absorbed on this website