You create your own false information, study finds
Monday, December 9, 2019 - 10:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Along with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there’s another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics – it’s you. A new study found that people given accurate statistics on a controversial issue tended to misremember those numbers to fit commonly held beliefs. For example, when people are shown that the number of Mexican immigrants … Continue reading You create your own false information, study finds