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I'd love to see a thorough investigation of how much social re-sharing depends on how much we want the conclusions of a study to be true, rather than the quality of the work. And what that then means for the diffusion of knowledge.https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1021020479979753472 …
Basically, low quality evidence for things political group X wants to believe tend to spread uncritically like wildfire among X. While high quality evidence against those things tend not to spread at all. This seems to be almost independent of the value of X.
The fundamental problem isn't that they're not aware what a good study looks like. It's that they want to promote things that confirm what they want to believe.
Not just politics. Among my friends I saw lots of sharing of studies finding moderate drinking being good for you but very little sharing of studies finding even moderate drinking being bad for you.
This is true of people in general, even outside of politics. People will readily accept information that is compatible with their beliefs and resist information that challenges their beliefs. It seems that people seek comfort at the cost of truth.
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