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One study I found is where they let people (their control group) check some data about effectiveness of a certain shampoo. They all found the correct answer. Then they let people do the exercise with the exact same data but said it was about gun control. Suddenly a part of the participants failed at basic math and had a lot of rationalizations.
Some folks will not just accept any fact or data that goes against a belief held by their peer group. Giving facts will even be seen as a personal attack.
I think Veritasium did a video on that.
Would love to see it if you have a link.
I'd imagine this is what OP is referring to
Certainly is, thank you.
Lol, I think I'm probably the one that will mess up the data because I'm a pro-gun leftist and they just assume that every democrat is anti-gun