FOX, er FauxNews, wins AGAIN!!

Study Finds Fox News Viewers Least Informed Of All Viewers

ANOTHER study has concluded that people who only watch Fox News are less informed than all other news consumers.

Researchers at Farleigh Dickinson University updated a study they had conducted in late 2011. That study only sampled respondents from New Jersey, where the university is located. This time, the researchers conducted a nationwide poll.

The poll asked questions about international news (Iran, Egypt, Syria and Greece were included) and domestic affairs (Republican primaries, Congress, unemployment and the Keystone XL pipeline.)

The pollsters found that people were usually able to answer 1.8 out of 4 questions on foreign news, and 1.6 of 5 questions on domestic news, and that people who don't watch any news were able to get 1.22 of the questions on domestic policy right.

As the study explained, though, people who watched only Fox News fared worse:

The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly -- a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all. On the other hand, if they listened only to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly; viewers of Sunday morning talk shows fare similarly well. And people watching only The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could answer about 1.42 questions correctly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/2 ... 38914.html

Imagine my surprise.... :Whistle

I can just imagine the questions. rofllol

1) Who were the top 5 Presidents? Hint, they all are Democrats.

2) What is better, socialism or capitalism?

3) Are the TEA Party more closely akin to neo-Nazi's, the KKK, or pedophiles?

4) Which was the more important economic tract, Das Kapital, or Wealth of Nations?

Real objective questions, right?

Wow...and I was the one being chastised for speculation. Wanna bet the conservative gang here won't complain about yours?

FredHayek wrote: I can just imagine the questions. rofllol

1) Who were the top 5 Presidents? Hint, they all are Democrats.

2) What is better, socialism or capitalism?

3) Are the TEA Party more closely akin to neo-Nazi's, the KKK, or pedophiles?

4) Which was the more important economic tract, Das Kapital, or Wealth of Nations?

Real objective questions, right?

1) FDR
2) JFK
3) IKE
4) Clinton
5)TBD
only in the last 80 years, GW was the best with Lincoln a close 2nd IMO all time 2 best.
Q2
neither in there pure form
Q3
neo nazi but that is only given your limited choices, more like a populist movement that is trying to deny reality. Luddites maybe?
Q4
Neither , another false choice, thousands of great books have been written.
Another simplistic load of hooey.

archer wrote: Wow...and I was the one being chastised for speculation. Wanna bet the conservative gang here won't complain about yours?

FredHayek wrote: I can just imagine the questions. rofllol

1) Who were the top 5 Presidents? Hint, they all are Democrats.

2) What is better, socialism or capitalism?

3) Are the TEA Party more closely akin to neo-Nazi's, the KKK, or pedophiles?

4) Which was the more important economic tract, Das Kapital, or Wealth of Nations?

Real objective questions, right?

Ok... just to make you feel better... Fred... that is stupid speculation. You have no idea if the questions were biased. Now Archer... change you girly-panties, they're probably soiled now after all that excitement.

For those who are really interested, the questions are on the Farleigh[sic] Dickinson University web site.

FredHayek wrote: I can just imagine the questions. rofllol

1) Who were the top 5 Presidents? Hint, they all are Democrats.

2) What is better, socialism or capitalism?

3) Are the TEA Party more closely akin to neo-Nazi's, the KKK, or pedophiles?

4) Which was the more important economic tract, Das Kapital, or Wealth of Nations?

Real objective questions, right?

The poll asked questions about international news (Iran, Egypt, Syria and Greece were included) and domestic affairs (Republican primaries, Congress, unemployment and the Keystone XL pipeline.)

The pollsters found that people were usually able to answer 1.8 out of 4 questions on foreign news, and 1.6 of 5 questions on domestic news, and that people who don't watch any news were able to get 1.22 of the questions on domestic policy right.

As the study explained, though, people who watched only Fox News fared worse:

The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly -- a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all. On the other hand, if they listened only to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly; viewers of Sunday morning talk shows fare similarly well. And people watching only The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could answer about 1.42 questions correctly.

Something the Dog Said wrote:

FredHayek wrote: I can just imagine the questions. rofllol

1) Who were the top 5 Presidents? Hint, they all are Democrats.

2) What is better, socialism or capitalism?

3) Are the TEA Party more closely akin to neo-Nazi's, the KKK, or pedophiles?

4) Which was the more important economic tract, Das Kapital, or Wealth of Nations?

Real objective questions, right?

The poll asked questions about international news (Iran, Egypt, Syria and Greece were included) and domestic affairs (Republican primaries, Congress, unemployment and the Keystone XL pipeline.)

The pollsters found that people were usually able to answer 1.8 out of 4 questions on foreign news, and 1.6 of 5 questions on domestic news, and that people who don't watch any news were able to get 1.22 of the questions on domestic policy right.

As the study explained, though, people who watched only Fox News fared worse:

The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly -- a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all. On the other hand, if they listened only to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly; viewers of Sunday morning talk shows fare similarly well. And people watching only The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could answer about 1.42 questions correctly.

No surprises there....if they truly understood current events and domestic issues they surely wouldn't be voting Republican. It's in Republican's (and FOX's) best interest to keep their voters ignorant.

Actually I am pretty surprised how poorly the NPR people did too, not even 50%. Aren't they supposed to be the smartest people in the country?

FredHayek wrote: Actually I am pretty surprised how poorly the NPR people did too, not even 50%. Aren't they supposed to be the smartest people in the country?

Apparently not. Although if you go on the premise that as a country we are not very well informed, they did better than the others