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Fox News is a brain eating disease?
Aug 2 2020 12:06PM more by sherkahn
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Well, that’s one way to think about it. Another is that it makes you stupider.

New data sets in psychology and social sciences are coming in with new results. Here is the latest result from an exam that began in 2016:

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For the study, Licari analyzed nationally representative data from 2016 wave of the American National Election Studies. The surveys asked respondents to report their use of online news media sources, including ABC News, BuzzFeed, CNN, Fox News, The Huffington Post, NBC News, The Washington Post, and other outlets.

After controlling for age, gender, race, education, political ideology and other factors, Licari found that using Fox’s website as a news source was associated with lower levels of some types of political knowledge, but not others.

“For some kinds of knowledge, there’s little reason to suspect an association between getting one’s news from FoxNews.com and less knowledge (what I term ‘process-oriented knowledge’ in the paper — or facts about the political system and how things are run).”

Process-oriented knowledge included things like knowing which party currently had the most members in the U.S. House of Representatives, how many years a United States Senator is elected for, and the political office held by John Roberts.

“But, for other kinds of knowledge (what I call ‘society-oriented knowledge’ comprising important facts about society and things affecting society), the evidence does point to a possible association between visiting the site and lower levels of knowledge,” Licari explained.

Examples of society-oriented knowledge included whether unemployment had gotten better or worse over the past year, whether Barack Obama was a Muslim, and whether the world’s temperature had been slowly increasing over the past 100 years.

“Taking-in additional online sources other than FoxNew.com diminished the negative effect, but the models suggest that, for the vast majority of people, the society-oriented knowledge gap between visitors and non-visitors is pretty durable. That association is statistically and — I feel — substantively significant,” Licari said.


In short, Fox makes you stupider.
      
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jazz51
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Aug 2 2020 12:25PM     link to this

Dude probably got his research information from CNN.
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Aug 2 2020 01:13PM     link to this

@ Sherky

Sometimes your gloom is just pathetic, as you start with a thesis, then use a Rube Goldberg method to get there from nowhere, lol

"The surveys asked respondents to report their use of online news media sources"

Any survey that trusts respondents to answer honestly is not worth the cloud space it's taking up.
Usage needs to be tracked.

How about attaching your links so everybody can judge for themselves the quality of your source?

Didn't do that, now I know why

physicsguy
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Aug 2 2020 01:13PM     link to this

The amount of news on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News is small compared to the amount of "analysis" and opinion. None of them are unbiased and all of them present views that can confirm your own biases. CNN used to be more towards the center than MSNBC or Fox News, but that has gone out the window during the Trump administration. None of these cable news networks will make you smarter, they will just make you a more blind sheep.
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Aug 2 2020 01:16PM     link to this

Are you actually of the belief that CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, or any other feed....including right wing doesn't make you stupider?

The only one I've found so far that just transmits hard facts and news without the bullshit is Axios.

Get back to the gloom, Gloom Guy
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GoBallsDeep
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Aug 2 2020 01:21PM     link to this

BTW, Gloom guy.......

Here's some gloomy facts

100,000 Americans die from the H3N2 virus in 1968 which is the equivalent today of 150,000

We've had some great pandemics before and will again, nobody has ever heard of doing a lockdown or shutdown.......it's not even a medical thing.

Just bullshit YOUR media colluded with others just to get Agent Orange out and he showed himself to be an idiot in handling it, for sure.

I can appreciate why they want to get him out but killing so many people to do it???

It does give you a great gloomy story to tell, though.


PLEASE START USING THE MIND THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH, PLEASE..........

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Aug 2 2020 01:22PM     link to this

Gloom guy, please stick with your gloom.
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Aug 2 2020 03:37PM     link to this

Every time Doomboy creates a new blog he, shows just how small his IQ actually is.
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Aug 2 2020 04:21PM     link to this

Great research!!!!

enjoy the next 5 years....
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Aug 2 2020 06:39PM     link to this

Alex Jones??? -- Why would a rational person watch this psycho?

A wacko who claimed the Sandy Hook gun violence victims were "crisis actors," who called the Oklahoma City bombing a federal operation, who demanded that the Federal Reserve be abolished, who was issued a cease and desist from the Attorney General of New York, after he claimed, in complete absence of evidence, that products he sold, including colloidal silver toothpaste and dietary supplements, were an effective treatment for COVID-19.

The Food and Drug Administration also sent him a letter on April 9, 2020 warning that the federal government might proceed to seize the products he was marketing for COVID-19 or fine him if he continued to sell them; who claims that hurricanes are geo-engineered by the government, etc.

A wack job. No rational person would believe ANYthing Alex Jones said.
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Aug 2 2020 06:49PM     link to this

You guys make me chuckle so much when your b.s. meets with actual science.

And oh, look, more science that proves listening to Trump and his followers makes you stupider and is bad for your health.

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Stupid is as stupid duh....
sherkahn
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Aug 2 2020 06:58PM     link to this

Here is the link, from Cambridge.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-political-science-revue-canadienne-de-science-politique/article/how-rightleaning-media-coverage-of-covid19-facilitated-the-spread-of-misinformation-in-the-early-stages-of-the-pandemic-in-the-us/6B0EB93F6BA17608D82B4D23EDA75E50
GoBallsDeep
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Aug 2 2020 07:42PM     link to this

Like you can lump me in the "Alex Jones" category and that negates the facts and info I bring to the site........i call bullshit.

As I said, Axios is the only one that has the facts alone.
But, i read the NYT and the WSJ and access many other sites, but I don't watch conspiracy theorists.........which you already know.

Sherky, you're full of shit and you should just stick to the gloom stuff
That's what you're here for and only that.....
So, bring the gloom baby!

GoBallsDeep
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Aug 2 2020 07:53PM     link to this

Sherky, another factoid to stuff up your b-hole and ruminate on (see link)

Equivalent to about 170,000 American deaths today

We got fucking lazy in this country after H1N1 fizzled out in 2009, even after GWB (you know the dumb one) tried to warn us, spent over a billion $$$ and tried to prepare us...............and we're paying now big time because both parties are filled with such sound bite assholes.

Then you fuck-up Progressives got your teeth set in it, using it to get rid of a President you don't like after both the Russian collusion lie and the impeachment stupidity didn't work.

Only problem is that you had to help KILL over 100,000 Americans to do it and blame it on someone else.

Kinda like Portland, Seattle, et all
Yeah, no violence from those young totalitarians.....all peaceful protest
Sure, the Right is fucked up
But, the Left is just as fucked up
And, you're both literally killing people

If you can't meet in no-man's land with white flags and figure out a way to move EVERYBODY forward.........please just KILL YOURSELVES instead of other people.
Namaste


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GoBallsDeep
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Aug 2 2020 08:00PM     link to this

I don't watch AJ, so i got no clue as to his batting average but he fucked up big time with Sandy Hook.
Big Time........
GoBallsDeep
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Aug 2 2020 08:06PM     link to this

Holy shit, Sherky!
Canadian Journal of PoliSci?
How long did you have to search the web to come up with that one?

Did you watch HBO's "After Truth"?
You'd love it, all about right wing conspiracies and dirty Republican political operatives, lol

If I wanted to waste my time, i could find 10 articles, not nearly as obscure, about Left leaning media coverage facilitating the death of people from Covid..........so what?

assholes and opinions again

You seem a smart guy, I believe you can do much better than you have so far
Just need to open your mind...........a lot
Mr.Horndog
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Aug 2 2020 11:43PM     link to this

Fox isn't news, it's a joke, it's a propaganda channel.
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Aug 2 2020 11:48PM     link to this

Here. You got time.
.
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AFMadness
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Aug 2 2020 11:53PM     link to this

Why you still dicking around with fake news I dunno.

I conclude, therefore, that the relatively sane are capable of accepting evidence and the insane are not.

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Aug 3 2020 05:52AM     link to this

I've also found the Economist to be sane and educational.
The WSJ is a given, although primarily center right
I find the center left of the NYT useful.
The LAT & WP are virtually worthless rags on the left
Unfamiliar with any similar newspapers on the right
sherkahn
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Aug 3 2020 09:52AM     link to this

GoBalls,

I initially started looking into how-the-fuck my high school’s valedictorian and academic Uber-bad ass debater/lawyer went from highly competent to promoting “the Left wants to bring Satan into power; Wayfair scandal is true; my party and I have been touched by God, even though my President is a known philanderer/adulterer/ etc.” This was someone I respected since being a snot nosed punk.

She and the bonafide redneck trash we’re building each other up on social media and going further down the conspiracy hole faster than crane_op could poop out. And Fox News talking points in many of her posts. Even my conservative friends that I respect were wondering how did she fall down the rabbit hole. It’s not the conservative church that’s promoting this views, nor grassroots community which we share.

So, long story short, I started looking into how stuff like this could happen, and the history of making yourself dumber, in the US. And we’ve had plenty of time to gather valid data.

I’m not saying any of the other news sources are great for getting news, I know and see the biases. But out of the valid news sources, people who watch Fox News are loosing the ability to understand the actual history of our nation.
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Aug 3 2020 10:23AM     link to this

^^^^
Have you actually watched Fox News? And I am not just referring to someone like Hannity or Tucker Carlson.

I bet I have watched more CNN than you have watched Fox News.

A news network is NOT just their prime time hosts.

Have you listened to Shannon Bream, Martha MacCallum, Brett Baier, Brit Hume, Harris Faulkner, Dana Perino? Bet not.

Quite honestly, there is not much 'right wing' news out there compared to every other news source that is left leaning.
sherkahn
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Aug 3 2020 01:00PM     link to this

I read RAND.Org, listen to NPR/BBC and enjoy opinions on American Conservative and Reuters.
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Aug 3 2020 01:15PM     link to this

Rational ?

This here place is not rational abyss.
This is Random abyss. Where no rational person ever recited or resides.
sherkahn
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Aug 3 2020 05:59PM     link to this

I defer. I always like a solid debate based on logic and facts. When the other side starts name calling, then that is tougher to do. And when their “champion” likes to aim “below the belt”, then I am more than happy to go in the mud and toss muck back, or jump on top of every fault.

This fool should not be the POTUS, he should be in jail. He even makes George Bush 2 look civil and competent. Worse are the sycophants that are turning him into the Messiah.
sherkahn
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Aug 3 2020 06:00PM     link to this

But there are capable minds here who I can debate with.
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Aug 3 2020 06:01PM     link to this

So does MSNBC, CNN, et al.

Do your own fucking research on shit you want to know about.

Pretending they are different is funny and retarded.

sherkahn
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Aug 3 2020 06:07PM     link to this

I did not have to. If I did it it would be a blind opinion.

Actual scientists and smart people who know this stuff are proving Fox News makes you duh-mber.

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