People who said the economy was the most important issue to them, and who disapproved of Obama’s economic record, were shown a graph of nonfarm employment over the prior year – a rising line, adding about a million jobs. They were asked whether the number of people with jobs had gone up, down or stayed about the same. Many, looking straight at the graph, said down.
lol scientists are obamailures
*no nonsense, common sense good ol boy is not swayed by nonsense graph
*scientists start making jon stewart BWUH noises
Makeshift_Swahili posted:People who said the economy was the most important issue to them, and who disapproved of Obama’s economic record, were shown a graph of nonfarm employment over the prior year – a rising line, adding about a million jobs. They were asked whether the number of people with jobs had gone up, down or stayed about the same. Many, looking straight at the graph, said down.
lol scientists are obamailures
not sure what your point is here, nonfarm employment is the standard measure of employment used by the US government and when you hear people on the news say "the US gained x number of jobs last month" they're referring to nonfarm employment statistics from the BLS
Lessons posted:lol this is so stupid. of course people don't immediately accept unsourced Facts that contradict their deeply-held beliefs and prior knowledge. these conclusions that it's evidence of some sort of deep-seated neurological bias are basically on the level of evopsych. people actually do get convinced by facts, arguments and narratives, it just doesn't show up immediately in a laboratory setting where you show them gunchart.jpg and suddenly they realize gun control is for dweebs.
all of this is right but doesnt actually apply to the study since they didnt show them gunchart and ask them their opinion on guns, they showed them gunchart and asked them what gunchart said and people didnt even know on a basic level what they had just seen, they werent judging the data for being unsourced or whatever they were just not even looking at the chart and just assuming it said what they wanted it to P R E T T Y C O O L
acephalousuniverse posted:all of this is right but doesnt actually apply to the study since they didnt show them gunchart and ask them their opinion on guns, they showed them gunchart and asked them what gunchart said and people didnt even know on a basic level what they had just seen, they werent judging the data for being unsourced or whatever they were just not even looking at the chart and just assuming it said what they wanted it to P R E T T Y C O O L
no they really asked them "what's happening with guns" it's really obvious they just didn't believe the chart. the more interesting part is that people had trouble solving math problems when the right answers go against their political viewpoint which suggests something more subliminal is going on, but even that doesn't play into the "people who think ideologically must have something wrong with their brains" narrative the article pushes.
wasted posted:this forum is becoming too absurd
Scientists discover violence still only effective way to solve arguments
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Lessons posted:Really? I thought you were just a weird and unfunny white noise guy but I guess I stand corrected.
mods ban this chucklefuck
Lessons posted:Why are you copypasting random posts I make on other forums into this thread you fucking weirdo?
its a good post, i thought of rikers face in that video and did a lol
cleanhands posted:Lessons posted:Why are you copypasting random posts I make on other forums into this thread you fucking weirdo?
its a good post, i thought of rikers face in that video and did a lol
It's kind of hard to believe that video was made by the same person who does the GBS comic for tumblr.