Conservatives and liberals tend to engage in different evidence-gathering strategies
I used to have a list of links, all to places like pubmed, which said the same as this. This would have been link number 5 but I lost the list so now it's just number 1.
A study published in PLOS ONE reveals that political ideology and cognitive reflection influence evidence-gathering strategies. Liberals and individuals with higher cognitive reflection skills tend to seek comprehensive statistical comparisons, while conservatives and those who rely more on intuition focus on categorical data points or expert opinions.
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