November 21st, 2011

Liberal Websites Crowing Jubilantly Over Poll Of Fox Viewers : NJ Fox Subscribers "Less Informed"

Posted by: Barry Secrest
Published on November 21st, 2011 @ 11:54:46 pm , using 359 words

Posted in Events and Issues: Credible Resources

Cr edit note: Are these guys for real? Who in the hell is Fairleigh Dickinson? Anyway, the Fox News viewers missed two foreign policy questions on Egypt and the Mideast. This, supposedly, makes these viewers from NJ magnify into a cross-section of the entire US as being completely ignorant if they watch Fox News.

Typical. The age-old mantra is "Conservatives are stupid" despite all evidence to the contrary. But if you really want to see stupid, all's you have to do is look at where this country is now under three years of Liberal rule.

Huffington Post

Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

The poll surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East, and where they get their news sources. The study, which controlled for demographic factors like education and partisanship, found that "people who watch Fox News are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government" and "6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government" compared to those who watch no news.

Overall, 53% of all respondents knew that Egyptians successfully overthrew Hosni Mubarak and 48% knew that Syrians have yet to overthrow their government.

Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson, explained in a statement, "Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News. Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."

This isn't the first study that has found that Fox News viewers more misinformed in comparison to others. Last year, a study from the University of Maryland found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics.

3 comments

Comment from: wordkyle [Visitor]

I had trouble believing the headlines on this poll, so I found the actual questions and methodology used. The question "Is Fox News your primary source of information?" was never asked. The researchers read a list of media sources and respondents said yes, they had got news from a particular news source during the past week, or no, they hadn't. The methodology used to arrive at the conclusion (and headline) that Fox News leaves people "knowing less" is not shown. Before this poll can be taken seriously by anyone other than Liberals, a cause-and-effect relationship needs to be shown.

11/22/11 @ 13:06

Comment from: Fester Adams [Visitor]

Only 600 people were polled, all from New Jersey.
Hardly a scientific poll. It is suprising Dan Cassino is a
professor at all, however Fairleigh Dickenson has one of the highest student loan default rates in the US.

11/22/11 @ 15:00

Comment from: faye [Visitor]

The dumbest people I've run into are Huffington Post readers. Bar none. Total idiots over there.

05/23/12 @ 15:46

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