[ExI] credulousness

[John Grigg]

I hang out at times on a very conservative forum to hear their views, and
it amazes me just how plain paranoid they can be!

John

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 2:00 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Those hoping to sway public opinion are shocked and/or delighted by the
> successes of the fake news of the previous years.  How many of the people
> who stormed the Capitol were liberals?  You are right!  Few.  Here is a
> study (read the abstract and the discussion only to save time) that finds
> that fake news is mostly believed by conservatives IF the news is negative.
>
> "When information concerns hazards, erroneous incredulity is often more
> costly than erroneous credulity, given that disregarding accurate warnings
> is more harmful than adopting unnecessary precautions."
> If the news is potentially positive, there is no asymmetry between
> liberals and conservatives.
>
> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617692108
>
> bill w
>
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