RE: Open to explore possibility
February 18, 2021 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2021 at 4:53 pm by Angrboda.)
(February 18, 2021 at 4:30 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(February 18, 2021 at 3:58 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Please don't misquote me again.
Perhaps you were misunderstood but you weren't misquoted. I'm still not entirely clear on your point; but there is surely research on the topic, so I'll defer my answer to those. Generally speaking biases come first, confirmation second.
Selectively quoting someone in a way that distorts their meaning is misquoting, so yes you did misquote. Are you saying you don't know the difference between accurately quoting someone and inaccurately quoting them?
My main point was that the correlation between watching Fox news and embracing false information isn't necessarily indicative of a causative role. Other things, such as the signal-to-noise ratio, might be considered causative. Why don't you back up and instead of trying to manufacture the appearance of a conflict between the two statements try to explain in words how you see the two as being contradictory? Or you can continue doing what you're doing, which frankly, isn't working.
Quote:mis·quote
/misˈkwōt/
verb
gerund or present participle: misquoting
quote (a person or a piece of written or spoken text) inaccurately.