There's an intriguing sociological reason so many Americans are ignoring facts lately.
This is such an important issue because, knowing myself, I tend to believe everything I read on the internet, the news, or on the newspaper. I recognize them as very credible references because they are of such so popular resources. In this article they constructed a study of giving people newspaper articles that had statements that were supporting misinformation. They found that "how people responded to the factual corrections in the articles they read varied systematically by how ideologically committed they already were to the beliefs that such facts supported. Among those who believed the popular misinformation in the first place, more information and actual facts challenging those beliefs did not cause a change of opinion." Over all I think more than every people are just going to stick to what they believe more than anything. Just because most of us are so stubborn! No matter what everyone will take a piece of information and apply it differently and there's not much we can do about that.
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