Researcher's trick transforms conservatives into liberals ahead of election

nature.com

6 pointsananyob4 comments

I guess it makes sense, if you think about it. I mean, why on earth would people vote democrat if they weren't tricked into it in some way?

That could be said the other way around as well. ;)

Now seriously, there's an infinite amount of shades of gray between black and white. I wonder why most people always fall for these dichotomising old tricks.

Anyway, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Yeah - the trick worked both ways>> "on the basis of the manipulated score, 10% of the subjects switched their voting intentions, from right to left wing or vice versa. Another 19% changed from firm support of their preferred coalition to undecided. A further 18% had been undecided before the survey, indicating that as many as 47% of the electorate were open to changing their minds, in sharp contrast to the 10% of voters identified as undecided in Swedish polls at the time."

Yeah, I was just making a dumb joke. :^)

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