[Mary] > In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of > Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political > partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely > changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in > their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation.
. Maybe they see themselves as identifying misinformation & bias. Just as bad is believing everything you hear/read. The only solution is to buy 2 copies of the newspaper so that you can check the facts. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
