The study was verified as true and straight, so any thing to the contrary is fake news. Any thing to the contrary is nonsense.
Link verifying this study as true and straight? Because I can't find one. It ain't "true and straight" just because you like what it says. You make the claim, you back it up.
Thanks.
They've been making this claim for years. How many times did they do the study?
STUDY: Watching FOX News Makes You Stupid
Study Finds Fox News Viewers Least Informed Of All Viewers | HuffPost
The study was analyzed here: Sometimes the wrong answers or biased ones were chosen as "correct."
The Truth About Fox News Viewers
Biased questions equals bias:
Question 1:
Do you think that MOST SCIENTISTS believe that climate change is occurring, not occurring, or views are evenly divided?" (emphasis in the original). Of course, the answer WorldPublicOpinion.org wants was that most scientists believe that climate change is occurring. Again, the question is poorly worded. In particular, it fails to specify what time period is relevant. Have temperatures risen since the end of The Little Ice Age in 1850? Surely, no one disagrees with that. Have temperatures changed much since 1998?
Few scientists would claim so. Judging from the WorldPublicOpinion.org's report, the authors are clearly pushing the man-made global warming viewpoint. But on that score, there is little unanimity. For example, a
2010 survey of American weather forecasters found only 17 percent to believe in man-made global warming. And, as for scientists in general,
9,029 Ph.D.s signed a petition this year disputing man-made global warming claims.
Question # 2: "What effect do you think the health reform law will have on the federal budget deficit over the next ten years?" The "correct" answer was that Obamacare would reduce the deficit, and the report cites a March estimate by the CBO that the health care savings would be $124 billion. But this is an old, vastly optimistic left-wing prediction touted by the CBO to get Obamacare passed. Even the Obama administration now admits that their plan will add to the deficit. The CBO itself now acknowledges that they double-counted projected
Medicare spending cuts. Correcting that error adds
$89 billion to the health care costs over the decade. Another CBO error also underestimated discretionary spending in the new health care law by
$60 billion. These errors by themselves, not even counting other problems, flips the math around and shows that Obamacare will increase the deficit.
Question #3: "Do you think that now the American economy is still getting worse or starting to recover?" This question, like the others in the survey, were asked from November 6th to 15th.
The "right" answer was supposed to be that the economy was "starting to recover." But whether things were getting "worse" depends a lot on what numbers were considered, and the question failed to make it clear precisely what numbers were being refereed to.
In terms of GDP growth, the recession did end in June 2009. Yet, since June 2009, unemployment kept on rising from 9.5 to 9.8 percent. Four million more Americans became unemployed or simply gave up looking for work and left the labor force. Furthermore, with uncertainty over the future rising, temporary jobs have started replacing permanent jobs, with 561,000 permanent jobs disappearing since the recovery started.
But the researchers themselves were clearly misinformed and frequently picked incorrect or left-wing biased answers as the "correct" ones, something the uncritical mainstream media apparently never examined.
If anything, the survey showed that FNC viewers didn't fall for liberal bias as much as other Americans did.
The WorldPublicOpinion.org survey is a mess. At best, the survey shows that liberals who conducted the survey simply were not smart or careful enough. If any conclusion can be drawn, it is that those who watched Fox News almost every day had not fallen for left-wing myths to the same extent as other Americans.[/QUOTE]
