Liberale vertrauen Experten mehr als Konservative, aber Expertenetiketten schlägt immer noch von Bedeutung, dass US -Studie. Während Liberale eher Experten als Konservative vertrauen, reagieren Konservative möglicherweise immer noch positiver, wenn Ansprüche von Experten stammen, deren Forschung in Produktion und Wirtschaftswachstum liegt.

I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09636625251372081

From the linked article:

**Liberals trust experts more than conservatives, but expert labels still matter**

A new study published in Public Understanding of Science suggests that attributing scientific claims to specific experts can modestly increase how accurate those claims are perceived to be — especially among politically conservative individuals. **Conducted in the United States, the study also indicates that while liberals tend to trust experts more than conservatives across the board, conservatives may still respond more positively when claims come from experts whose research is associated with production and economic growth**.

Across all expert types, liberals expressed more trust than conservatives. However, the difference was smaller for production experts. This suggests that while conservatives are generally less trusting of experts, they may be relatively more comfortable with experts whose work aligns with economic or industrial goals.

When it came to judging the accuracy of specific claims, political ideology again played a role. Liberals tended to rate all four claims as more accurate than conservatives did — except for the taxation claim. Conservatives rated that claim (which said taxing the rich and corporations reduces government income) as more accurate than liberals. This finding aligns with previous research showing that people’s political beliefs often influence how they evaluate individual claims.

However, some subtle effects did emerge. Overall, attributing a claim to any kind of expert, whether from a specific field or just a general “scientist,” increased its perceived accuracy compared to when no expert was mentioned. This effect appeared most strongly in two of the four claims: the one about taxation and the one about climate change.

For the taxation claim, both liberals and conservatives rated the claim as more accurate when it was linked to a specific expert, compared to when it had no source. For the climate change claim, conservatives in particular viewed the claim as more accurate when it was attributed to an environmental or agricultural scientist, rather than left without a named source. Liberals, by contrast, rated the claim’s accuracy the same regardless of whether an expert source was included.

If conservatives believed experts in economics then they wouldn’t be conservatives.

Basically it is saying conservatives can trust physical results better than other results…

I guess the fact you can see the actual thing helps. You can definitely see cost of living and whether food is in the store.

So I guess we need to bring out an economics expert to explain how vaccines and universal health care can help spur economic growth?