Comments on: Fox News Makes You Stoopid, It Turns Out! https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/fox-news-makes-you-stoopid-it-turns-out/ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Equisetum https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/fox-news-makes-you-stoopid-it-turns-out/#comment-18069 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:00:59 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1350#comment-18069 This actually made the news here in Germany. My first thought was the same as Greg’s headline.

The idea that Fox has come up with some form of anti-memory and is actively deploying it does sound rather interesting though!

How else can you account for the result that Fox viewers actually know less about the news than people who watch no news at all?

But of course it could just be the John Stuart Mill effect:

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

]]> By: Robert https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/08/fox-news-makes-you-stoopid-it-turns-out/#comment-18068 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:13:06 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1350#comment-18068 I haven’t read the original article, but the “correlation ? causation” alarm bell in my head is ringing quite loudly after reading several news reports on this.

Either, Fox news makes you stupid, or stupid people watch Fox news (or some third effect is causing both…) A simple poll like this can in no way distinguish between these scenarios.

The idea that Fox has come up with some form of anti-memory and is actively deploying it does sound rather interesting though!

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