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1. WSJ: Fake News and Fake Education?
A new study suggests that distorted media reporting and academic instruction are encouraging Americans to dislike each other.
A new study suggests that distorted media reporting and academic instruction are encouraging Americans to dislike each other.
2. The good news is that people who disagree with you about politics aren’t nearly as unreasonable as you think. The bad news is that you are going to have a very hard time learning about them—unless of course you decide to talk to them.
3. These are the findings of a new study suggesting that news media and academic institutions generally aren’t providing the straight story. Americans on each side imagine that almost twice as many people on the other side hold extreme views than actually do.
4. So say scholars Daniel Yudkin, Stephen Hawkins and Tim Dixon in a new report, “The Perception Gap.” The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan organization More in Common and the polling firm YouGov, was taken just after the 2018 midterms.
5. For example, Democrats estimate that about half of Republicans would admit that racism is still a problem in the United States, when in reality 79 percent of Republicans say so.
6. Republicans, meanwhile, think fully half of Democrats would say that “most police are bad people.” The actual percentage is 15 percent. Some amount of the time, we are fighting ghosts, not real people.
7. And the more inaccurate our perceptions, the more likely we are to describe our opponents as “hateful” and “brainwashed,” the study found.
8. Knowing a multitude of people from the other side of the political spectrum in real life, I know the kooks who sometimes barge into my TL to spew their bile are not representative of the other side.
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