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Brendan Nyhan: Measuring Political Violence Without Panic

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Why the '39%' Statistic Misleads

Brendan Nyhan explains how single-item survey questions inflate apparent support for political violence and how two-step designs and open-ended follow-ups reveal much lower felony-level support.

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