We are screwed and just because we are unable to admit when we are wrong and refuse to view situations through the experience of others. From a normative perspective, it is especially important to determine whether misperceptions, which distort public opinion and political debate, can be corrected. Previous research in political science has found that it is possible to change issue. Kuklinski and Quirk (2000) and Lau and Redlawsk (2001) make a compelling argument that citizens are likely to fail to use heuristics correctly in even modestly complex situations.opinions by directly providing relevant facts to subjects (Kuklinski et al. 2000, Gilens 2001, Howell and West 2009). However, such authoritative statements of fact (such as those provided by a survey interviewer to a subject) are not reflective of how citizens typically receive information. Instead, people typically receive corrective information within “objective” news reports pitting two sides of an argument against each other, which is significantly more ambiguous than receiving a correct answer from an omniscient source. In such cases, citizens are likely to resist or reject arguments and evidence contradicting their opinions – a view that is consistent with a wide array of research (e.g. Lord, Ross, and Lepper 1979; Edwards and Smith 1996; Redlawsk 2002; Taber and Lodge 2006). web.archive.org/web/20110511211719/www-personal.umich.edu/~bnyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf
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