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This is a little old, but only just heard of this term of "low-conscientiousness conservatives" from YouTuber Leeja Miller.

"In newly published research, we found that it’s not conservatives in general who tend to promote false information, but rather a smaller subset of them who also share two psychological traits: low levels of conscientiousness and an appetite for chaos."

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[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There’s many reasons for this, but one is pretty simple: people lie.

You'd be surprised about how accurate scientific surveys are. The worst surveys are only 10% points off from real world data lol.

Unless you're gaming the survey like magazines do, real world studies aren't off by much.

https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2016/05/02/assessing-the-accuracy-of-online-nonprobability-surveys/