DARK BRANDON RISES
(From Huffington Post)
Posted on 10/20/2022 11:57:25 AM PDT by devane617
People who deny the existence of facts believe in fake news more often. People with dark personality traits—those who always put their own benefit first—are particularly often affected.
These are the findings of a new study at the Human-Computer-Media Institute at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. "Some people believe fake news even when the scientific facts clearly contradict them," says psychologist Jan Philipp Rudloff. "We wanted to know why this is the case and investigate the role played by our ideas about the nature of knowledge and facts."
Rudloff, who is doing his Ph.D. at the department of communication psychologist Professor Markus Appel, conducted an extensive experiment on this matter. Together with Appel he confronted more than 600 individuals from the U.S. with various short headlines—such as " Trump's first three years created 1.5 million fewer jobs than Obama's last three." Participants were asked to assess the accuracy of these statements.
Epistemic beliefs were assessed with a questionnaire
Afterwards, they filled out a comprehensive questionnaire. Among other things, the participants were asked to indicate how much they trust their gut feeling when evaluating the accuracy of information, how important solid evidence is to them and how much they assume that politics, science and the media "fabricate" facts according to their interests.
"We summarize these aspects as 'epistemic beliefs,'" Rudloff explains—epistéme comes from the Greek and means "cognition" or "knowledge."
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
a.k.a. POS libtard filth
The fact that one of the questions was about Trump suggests a distinct possibility of confirmation bias in this study. The study is probably intended to confirm the biases of those doing the study.
Well there was that “dark” speech Trump gave. 🙄
The Russia-hoax and catastrophic-AGW believers fit the mold quite nicely.
I wonder what the researchers consider to be facts.
I want to see examples --
"The fact is, Carbon dioxide is a deadly pollutant. Why don't you believe the science?"
"The fact is, climate change is real. Why don't you believe the science?"
"The fact is, the COVID vaccine has saved billions of lives. Why don't you believe the science?"
"The fact is, Donald Trump is a poopy-head. Why don't you believe the science?"
Try talking facts with global warming enthusiasts. They are immune.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD FOR 2 FRICKIN MINUTES NOT TO BECOME A HEALTHY SKEPTIC IN WHAT ANY HUMAN BEING TELLS YOU.
What in the hell kind of propaganda BS is this arse talking?
SO put that dark personality in your pipe and smoke it, because the last person I would ever trust is the first person who tells me I should be more trusting.
Scientific FACT: Your biological sex is determined by your feelings at the moment, and/or peer pressure/parents desire to virtue signal.
Related article about belief vote fraud demonstrators killed people.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4102131/posts
Amen.
Talk about bending facts!
“”People with dark personality traits bend reality to their own liking. For example: I don’t wear a mask because the coronavirus was just invented by the media anyways,” Rudloff explains. “Bending the facts based on selfish motives works especially well when people are convinced that there are no independent scientific facts anyway.”
This gaslighting isn’t even subtle. I can’t even amuse myself with the “skill” here.
More stupid Fake news.
It is the ‘decent’ people that are more susceptible to fake news. People good at heart, trusting, unable to accept conspiracies, fraud or criminal behavior from those in power, typically the elderly that have a more innate respect for institutions.
Those people are the most vulnerable to con artists and they are also the most vulnerable to be manipulated by biased news, using ‘facts’ to convince them.
A typical example is this garbage of a post expressing the opinions of an ‘expert’ in Germany
“I wonder how “facts” would go over with these folks if presented?”
Exactly.
This is the old Soviet playbook. If you don’t agree with the Party, you are insane or evil. Or both.
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