Similar Stories to Political Anonymity May Help Us See Both Sides Of A Divisive Issue Online on Bing News

Some topics are so politically charged that even to attempt a discussion online is to invite toxicity and rigid disagreement among participants. But a new study finds that exposure to the views of others, minus their political affiliation, could help us overcome our own biases. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, led by sociologist Damon Centola, examined how people’s interpretations of some commonly misunderstood climate change data changed after seeing those of people in opposing political parties. The theory is that by exposing people to information sans partisan affiliation, we might be able to break the “motivated reasoning” that leads us to interpret data in a preconceived way. The data in this case was a NASA study indicating that sea ice levels will decrease but frequently misinterpreted as suggesting the opposite.

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