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144 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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We Found No Backfires, Right?

CNN's John Sutter and Tom Foreman conducted a study of political misstatements by politicians. They found no evidence that these statements provoked ideological groups to backfire. The results were so surprising, they decided to conduct more studies in an attempt to find out what was causing people to make incorrect assumptions.

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