Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study- Duh!

poet said:
Sucker? You must be referring to your mother. And evidently, you are not in any sage position to determine much of anything outside of your small-minded world. "More stupid than the average Democrat" is an illogical fallacy. And are you obsessed with being a heterosexual? Are you obsessed with being white? No one is obsessed with what they are inherently, moron.
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When did you first discover you were vaginaphobic?
 
lol.....before you draw too many incorrect conclusions I suggest you look at the actual study......

http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/

not much difference between the Fox and the MSNBC listeners......I find it curious that one of it's questions was about economic conditions in Europe but none of the test results mentioned it........I wonder why......
 
bravo said:
Yeah....the hyphenated kind....
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By that I assume you to mean people of supposed breeding ... I said 'supposed'.
However, as part of some recent casual research I google mapped various parts of New Jersey. I must say I was not knocked back on my heels by culture and evidence of money. Indeed, some houses looked decidedly 'dowdy' and of extremely modest value. Even houses within a putt of a golf course were very 'ordinary'.
So if you are suggesting some sort of elite living there it says a lot about your own good self.

Left hand down a bit.
Left hand down a bit it is, sir.
 
“Some News Leaves People Knowing Less,” blares a headline from the political science department of Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey today. The University conducted a survey of several hundred New Jersey residents and found some numbers that are very convenient for the enemies of a certain news organization– Fox News viewers were 18% more likely to be either misinformed or uninformed about certain current events.

The study (results of which can be found here) asked respondents about a number of current events, from the 2012 Republican election to the revolts in the Middle East, and asked respondents where they received their information. It controlled for education levels and partisanship. Sunday talk shows ranked highest among capacity to inform, but when it came to Fox News, the study claims, it seemed to have left viewers with less information than those who don’t watch news at all:
In the most recent study, the poll asked New Jerseyans about current events at home and abroad, and from what sources – if any – they get their information. The conclusion: Sunday morning news shows do the most to help people learn about current events, while some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who they don’t watch any news at all. [...]

But the real finding is that the results depend on what media sources people turn to for their news. For example, people who watch Fox News, the most popular of the 24-hour cable news networks, are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all (after controlling for other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors). Fox News watchers are also 6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government than those who watch no news.
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There are also a few other interesting numbers in the study: 11% of those polled think that Occupy Wall Street is a Republican-led movement, for one, and of those, most are far likelier to watch MSNBC. Only 55% of New Jerseyans could identify the frontrunners in the Republican presidential race at the time of the poll (Mitt Romney and Herman Cain), and the most likely to be informed correctly generally were viewers of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Other positive sources are New York Times and NPR, and talk radio generally.



The study is being heralded by the usual suspects as proof that Fox News many foibles (like this map of the Middle East, screencap via) is actually more damaging to all Americans than not watching any news at all. Of course, most of these are ignoring the fact that of this extremely select group, the MSNBC viewers were entirely confused about Occupy Wall Street for some reason– and, of course, are ignoring the fact that said foibles are natural in the television industry (and in print, and in talk radio), and forgivable if kept to a minimum.


And, more importantly, they ignore at their peril the questionable academic work that went into this study, and the questionable language used by the professors that may be a red flag as to how much they are exaggerating the importance of their work. Take, for example, Professor Dan Cassino calling the finding”that only about half of the public can name one of the front-runners is embarrassing.” Yes, that would be embarrassing for the American public– if half of 612 people in New Jersey, a state that represents about 0.002% of the American public, were representative of them. Given the extreme limits of its geographical range and the negligible number of those polled (a whole 612 people), it is difficult to see this study as irrefutable evidence of anything, and perilous to promote it as such for ideological benefit.




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poet said:
Sucker? You must be referring to your mother. And evidently, you are not in any sage position to determine much of anything outside of your small-minded world. "More stupid than the average Democrat" is an illogical fallacy. And are you obsessed with being a heterosexual? Are you obsessed with being white? No one is obsessed with what they are inherently, moron.
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Exactly...."No one is obsessed with what they are inherently"

I don't introduce race or sexual preference into any thread....but you find a way to inject those subjects into EVERY thread, no matter what the topic....

Obsessive ???? ..... you figure it out....
 
bravo said:
Exactly...."No one is obsessed with what they are inherently"

I don't introduce race or sexual preference into any thread....but you find a way to inject those subjects into EVERY thread, no matter what the topic....

Obsessive ???? ..... you figure it out....
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You only think you don't. I'm merely projecting back what you intend, allude to, or really mean. It's you and your kind that are obsessed by race, and differences, instead of similarities. I think, we're all in the same boat, row or mf'ing "bail". Or get out.
 
poet said:
You only think you don't. I'm merely projecting back what you intend, allude to, or really mean. It's you and your kind that are obsessed by race, and differences, instead of similarities. I think, we're all in the same boat, row or mf'ing "bail". Or get out.
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" row or mf'ing "bail"."


And there it is again.....thanks.....Pwned and Owned.....
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Isn't Princeton in New Jersey?
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Yes but most of its students aren't from New Jersey. It you want to get technical there are several nice pockets within the state. On the whole there is no state that produces more trash than Jersey. If we want to improve the U.S. Jersey goes first then Michigan.
 
cawacko said:
Yes but most of its students aren't from New Jersey. It you want to get technical there are several nice pockets within the state. On the whole there is no state that produces more trash than Jersey. If we want to improve the U.S. Jersey goes first then Michigan.
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I might have to email this to LadyT. I notice you are talking pretty big about Jersey now that she's not around.
 
Darla said:
I might have to email this to LadyT. I notice you are talking pretty big about Jersey now that she's not around.
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Haha! I thought about her right after I hit send. We'll include her in the 'several nice pockets'. :)
 
poet said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...med-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html






Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

The poll surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East, and where they get their news sources. The study, which controlled for demographic factors like education and partisanship, found that "people who watch Fox News are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government" and "6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government" compared to those who watch no news.

Overall, 53% of all respondents knew that Egyptians successfully overthrew Hosni Mubarak and 48% knew that Syrians have yet to overthrow their government.

Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson, explained in a statement, "Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News. Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."

This isn't the first study that has found that Fox News viewers more misinformed in comparison to others. Last year, a study from the University of Maryland found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics.


Nail in the coffin. We can put it to rest. About conclusions we already drew. - poet
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You needed a poll to know this?
 
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