Politically charged framing (gun control ban) makes responses to the same data politically polarized and less accurate¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? When the same data were presented as a gun control ban study, subjects' responses became politically polarized and even less accurate. → DAN M. KAHAN 2017

Evidence¶

DAN M. KAHAN 2017¶

DAN M. KAHAN, ELLEN PETERS, ERICA CANTRELL DAWSON and PAUL SLOVIC. (2017). Motivated numeracy and enlightened self-government. Behavioural Public Policy, Volume 1, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2016.2

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In the article's experiment, the identical dataset used for the skin rash task was reframed as a gun control ban study. The article reports responses "became politically polarized – and even less accurate". No test statistic or effect size is printed in the supplied text.

"subjects’ responses became politically polarized – and even less accurate – when the same data were presented as results from the study of a gun control ban"

Discussion¶

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