Fake News and Fake Education? - WSJ

Fake News and Fake Education? - WSJ
"The good news is that people who disagree with you about politics aren’t nearly as unreasonable as you think. 
The bad news is that you are going to have a very hard time learning about them—unless of course you decide to talk to them. 
These are the findings of a new study suggesting that news media and academic institutions generally aren’t providing the straight story.

Amanda Ripley writes in the Washington Post about liberals and conservatives in the U.S. and their perceptions of each other:

Americans on each side imagine that almost twice as many people on the other side hold extreme views than actually do, scholars Daniel Yudkin, Stephen Hawkins and Tim Dixon explain in a new report, “The Perception Gap.” The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan organization More in Common and the polling firm YouGov, was taken just after the 2018 midterms...

This column can’t vouch for the assertion that the staff of More in Common is “nonpartisan.” The study seems to find much greater fault with right-leaning than left-leaning media outfits..."
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