The V-Shaped Perception Gap: The stronger people’s political commitments, the less accurate their understanding of what the other side thinks. The politically disengaged have the most accurate picture of their fellow citizens’ views.
Steve Stewart-Williamssubstack.comSteve Stewart-Williams (@stevestewartwilliams)
1. We all know that political polarization is on the rise in many nations: Members of the two main parties hate each other more this week than they did last week, and hated each other more last week than they did last year. A new U.S. study reveals an interesting additional detail: Independents increasingly hate both sides.
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He discovered that the more numerate people (whether pro- or anti-gun) made more mistakes interpreting the data on the emotionally charged topic than the less numerate subjects sharing those same beliefs. “This pattern of polarization . . . does not abate among high-Numeracy subjects. Indeed, it increases.”
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This is to say that political actors routinely fail to understand themselves and their political opponents as making fallible knowledge-claims — fallible knowledge-claims about who won the election, for example, falli-ble knowledge-claims claims about the effects of climate change, fallible knowledge-claims about the existence of systemic raci... See more