The Backfire Effect
Posted in Misc on Aug 4th, 2010
An article in the Huffington Post points to an interesting and very readable publication in the journal Political Behavior: When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler. It’s also the subject of a good article in the Boston Globe. Appropriately, Nyhan and Reifler begin with the timeless maxim of Mark [...]
