Lies and politics
2004-04-01 19:27:03.78539+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
You should just go read Medley for political coverage, but one entry caught my eye. It links to The American Prospect: Credibility Gap, which, among other things reports on a paper that takes beliefs in simple falsehoods (and facts which even the Bush administration has admitted are false) and correlates those to support for the war. From the article:
Support for the war was found to be highly correlated with the possession of false beliefs on these three matters -- 86 percent of those who believed all three supported the war, as did 78 percent of those who believed two, and 53 percent of those who believed just one. Among people who knew the truth on all three scores, just 23 percent supported the war. One key finding was that misinformation about the state of world opinion was the single strongest predictor of support for the war.