Konservative und Liberale neigen dazu, unterschiedliche Strategien zur Beweiserhebung zu verfolgen. Liberale und diejenigen mit höheren kognitiven Reflexionsfähigkeiten suchen eher nach statistischen Daten, während Konservative und diejenigen, die sich mehr auf die Intuition verlassen, sich auf einzelne Datenpunkte oder Expertenmeinungen konzentrieren.

Conservatives and liberals tend to engage in different evidence-gathering strategies

A new study published in PLOS ONE provides evidence that a person’s political ideology and their capacity for analytical thinking shape how they gather information. The findings suggest that liberals and individuals with higher cognitive reflection skills are more likely to seek out comprehensive statistical data, whereas conservatives and those who rely more on intuition tend to focus on singular data points or expert opinions.

The results showed a link between political ideology and the type of evidence gathered. Self-identified conservatives were more likely to rely on categorical standards of evidence. For example, the probability that a respondent would rely on a single type of data point rose from roughly 4 percent for very liberal participants to over 37 percent for very conservative participants.

Conservatives were also less likely to seek out the fully associative data required to make a mathematically sound comparison. Liberals, by contrast, demonstrated a strong preference for collecting comprehensive statistical information.

Cognitive reflection also played a substantial role in these behaviors. Participants who scored higher on the cognitive reflection test were much less likely to rely on categorical evidence.

Instead, they tended to gather all available statistical data to compare the outcomes properly. These analytical thinkers were also less likely to request expert testimony. They preferred to look at the raw numbers themselves rather than deferring to the judgment of political organizations.

The researchers also found nuance in how people used expert sources. When individuals with high cognitive reflection scores did choose to consult experts, they were more likely to look for a mix of opinions. They sought out evaluations from both their own political “in-group” and the opposing “out-group.”

For instance, a cognitively reflective Democrat might check what both the Center for American Progress and the NRA said about the policy. In contrast, participants with lower cognitive reflection scores who sought expert advice tended to look exclusively at sources that aligned with their own political preferences.

For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0338088

>expert opinions.

mashing X to doubt so very very hard.

Conservatives have removed any qualified experts from authority to put in place people that tell them what they want to hear.

Do they define experts in these expert opinions as “people who claim to be experts” by chance?

I feel like literally every study that comes out like this is always “liberals in general follow facts and conservatives are morons”. I agree but still, it’s not like the conservatives will see it anyways

I don’t trust this in the least.

I think what this study really says is that liberals look for evidence and conservatives look for „experts“ and singular data points that confirm their pre-held beliefs.

The r/ conservative sub is a test case

They also processs information differently

Yes, and liberals tend to think very highly of themselves…

More like „expert“ opinions

I would be interested in how Socialists and Communists collect data.

In this new study, published by “our sponsor,” confirms everything we’ve previously believed to be true.

The U.S. doesn’t really have a conservative party and a liberal party. It has two broadly centrist parties, each with very long and very loud fringes.

I don’t know. Liberals can be knee jerk and non reflective too. Maybe not as much, but still to a significant extent and a significant slice of the population. The more partisan culture becomes, the more outwardly polarized, the more this happens on both sides.

Reddit shows this in abundance. Look at the Minnesota shooting for example. Conservatives have contorted this out of all perspective. But liberals claiming she was just making a three point turn, not knowing anything outside of the 20 second clip, is also non reflective, non contextual, and reactive.