Along with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there’s another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics — it’s you. A new study found that people given accurate statistics on a controversial issue tended to misremember those numbers to fit commonly held beliefs.
You create your own false information, study finds
Along with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there’s another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics — it’s you. A new study found that people given accurate statistics on a controversial issue tended to misremember those numbers to fit commonly held beliefs.