[extropy-chat] A case of self-deception?

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal at smigrodzki.org
Fri Apr 1 07:48:39 UTC 2005


Quoting Robin Hanson <rhanson at gmu.edu>:

> At 12:35 PM 3/31/2005, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> >A fascinating post on EconLog:
> >http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/03/what_fools_thes.html
> >
> >Apparently after 9/11, trust in government rose. ....
>
> Er, the point of that blog entry is to *question* that conclusion.
> The paper linked to claims people just interpreted a survey question
> differently when it was placed in a new context.

### Is this the case? In this post I find only a breakdown of the attitudes by
political orientation but no reference to a framing effect. Do you have links
to posts questioning the conclusion?

Rafal





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