Oh why bother...
Fri, 09/19/2008 - 2:20pm — Valhalla
Efforts to correct mistakenly(?) reported facts are counterproductive:
...journalists’ attempts to correct misinformation is unlikely to sway public perceptions, according to a series of experiments by a Duke University political scientist.
“What we found is that corrections are ineffective for the group most likely to have the misperception,” said Brendan Nyhan, a Ph.D. candidate in Duke’s political science department. “Even worse, we found that those people may actually end up believing in the misperception more strongly after hearing a correction.”
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The Texas Judicial System Thinks More Of The Juvenile Corrections System Than The Rest Of US
Wed, 03/28/2007 - 2:02pm — Jakebnto
The Talk Left Story by TChris comes hard on the heels of the scandal in the Texas Juvenile Corrections System.
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