Not Another Politics Podcast

Do Partisans Really Believe Different Facts?

08.09.2023 - By University of Chicago Podcast NetworkPlay

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The common refrain in political coverage today says that each side of the aisle is living in an information bubble. There is a partisan knowledge gap between the facts Democrats know and the facts Republicans know. May believe this gap could be the downfall of our democracy. But what if that gap isn’t as large as we think? In a new paper by independent researcher, Gaurav Sood, titled “A Gap In Our Understanding? Reconsidering the Evidence for Partisan Knowledge Gaps” he finds that the way we study knowledge gaps is flawed, and that differences in factual knowledge may not be as high as supposed. Paper Link: https://www.gsood.com/research/papers/partisan_gap.pdf

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