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University Study Determines Fox News Has Least-Informed National Audience Based on These Questions

Fairleigh Dickinson University Says Fox News Has Least Informed Audience While PBS Has Best Informed

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A May 5 study from Fairleigh Dickinson University is making news today after one of its findings seemingly indicated that Fox News has the least-informed national audience, while NPR has the best-informed.

The study even “determined” that many people who watch no news at all are more informed than those who watch Fox News, and, of course, people who watch the Daily Show are more informed than both of the above.

According to the report, a total of 1,185 individuals nationwide were asked what news sources they had utilized that week, and then were quizzed on a variety of domestic and international issues.  The study took place between February 6 and 12, 2012.

The analysis explains:

The study concludes that media sources have a significant impact on the number of questions that people were able to answer correctly. The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all. On the other hand, if they listened only to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly; viewers of Sunday morning talk shows fare similarly well.  And people watching only The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could answer about 1.42 questions correctly.

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Results for questions about international current events were similar… [Emphasis added]

Less reported is the highly suspect methodology, which oversampled Republicans “to get a better estimate of the Republican voting process,” but also greatly increasing the Republican margin of error.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Says Fox News Has Least Informed Audience While PBS Has Best Informed

Fox News President Roger Ailes (Photo: AP)

So what were some of the questions that Fox viewers apparently failed?

1)  To the best of your knowledge, have the opposition groups protesting in Egypt been successful in removing Hosni Mubarak?

2)  How about the opposition groups in Syria? Have they been successful in removing Bashar al-Assad?

3)  Some countries in Europe are deeply in debt, and have had to be bailed out by other countries. To the best of your knowledge, which country has had to spend the most money to bail out European countries?

4)  There have been increasing talks about economic sanctions against Iran. What are these sanctions supposed to do?

5)  Which party has the most seats in the House of Representatives right now?

6)  In December, House Republicans agreed to a short-term extension of a payroll tax cut, but only if President Obama agreed to do what? (Open-Ended)

7)  It took a long time to get the final results of the Iowa caucuses for Republican candidates. In the end, who was declared the winner? (Open-Ended)

8)  How about the New Hampshire Primary? Which Republican won that race? (Open-Ended)

9)  According to the figures, about what percentage of Americans are currently unemployed? (Open-Ended)

How many did you answer correctly?

In all odds, the study is only gaining national notoriety because it fits the anti-Fox narrative of most of the media.

But does it really? MSNBC received similarly low scores, and their numbers were not oversampled. In fact, if this graph showing knowledge of domestic affairs is to be believed, the people who ended up the most misinformed were conservatives who made the mistake of watching MSNBC. The only people who ended up misinformed after watching Fox, on the other hand, were liberals:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Says Fox News Has Least Informed Audience While PBS Has Best Informed

UPDATE:

Fairleigh Dickinson isn’t the first university to conduct such a study. You may remember The Blaze’s story from 2010 about the University of Maryland’s similar report that found Fox News viewers were the most “misinformed.” You also may remember that one person who took the time to comb through it found it to be “bogus.”

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  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:05pm

    Well i see that d-bag jon stewart is going to have a nice month of so called “jokes” for this.

    seriously. what a d-bag.

    and i am farily certain this university is not real.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:05pm

      REPORT: Liberals cite Liberal Study that confirms Liberals are Smart… and all others are Less so… especially the Stupid who watch Fox & GBTV!

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    • JohnLarson
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:22pm

      Maybe if all the good universities weren’t liberal then cons could fund more of their own studies.

      I mean we can’t all be Glenn Beck University graduates.

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    • bmwrider
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:38pm

      It must suck to be a foxtard right now! You would think that since they are mostly unemployed deadbeats, conservatives would have MORE time to watch the news and become informed.

      bmwrider  
    • teamarcheson
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:48pm

      People who refuse to listen to Propaganda will do poorly on the Propaganda questions.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:00pm

      Who gives a ****, this is just the typical liberal mis direction tactic. It’s like when you show them all the evidence that global warming is a hoax, that there is no gay gene, etc, they say some bs like well people used to think the earth was flat also. Sure liberals said the earth was flat for ages, just another example of something they got wrong.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:04pm

      This is such a loaded poll that there are no conservative correct answers! Sadly a majority of Americans do not verify this and pay no attention! This is why we are screwed!

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    • woodyb
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:07pm

      WEWANT — It is a real and valid university, but the study was of those who watched ONLY FOX. I dare say that VERY FEW fox viewers get their news ONLY from FOX, so the number in the sample had to be quite low!!!!

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    • marhee9
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:10pm

      I love how they keep doing these studies to try and justify the bias in the media. They can do 500 studies and I’ll never buy in to their liberal agenda. These studies would make even Joesph Goebbels blush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwGq8e23LOc

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    • Watermain
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:25pm

      bmwrider, I am so not surprised that you ride a European POS bike.

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    • bmwrider
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:38pm

      @watermain: Haha, I also have a Harley Sportster, but the BMW is my favorite. I highly doubt you even ride…

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    • Beeree
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:58pm

      @WATERMAIN I don’t know why you would even waste your time with an intellectual midget like that. Leave the BMW rider alone so he can get back to hi Dancing with the Stars fantasy world where Obama is the savior and everything is just candy canes and lollipops.

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    • macksfield
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:08pm

      Great post Luke, you nailed it.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:16pm

      Yep, the Tea Neck, Jersey way. Develop the desired outcome, then work your way back to the starting point. Seems to defy all other existing level headed polls. Like I told somebody else here tonight, the libs want to win by hook or crook, this one is proving it.

      RJJinGadsden  
    • Zer0
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:21pm

      Regardless of the network, the results of Libs/Cons watching MSNBC and FOX are sad. None of those sample questions were difficult at all. I agree with John Stossel, everyone shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:22pm

      @ LUKERW——————-

      Do something with your hair. It looks as silly as your opinions sound.

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:23pm

      Actually cause and effect are confused and confounded here. I think it’s only partly the case that FOX viewers are under informed because of FOX news content. There’s truth to that because Roger Ailes knows that sensational stories about those eight members of the New Black Panthers deserve lot of coverage, which reduces the amount of time spent discussing news that’s actually relevant. And in the National Enquirer vein, FOX spend a lot of time on the Kardashians or whatever tabloid news draws the viewers in. So yes, FOX doesn’t cover the news thoughtfully like NPR or other legitimate news sources. So there’s less legitimate news there.

      But also, people turn to FOX to have their prejudices confirmed. That’s the other side of the coin and part of the genius of Ailes and Murdoch. FOX appeals to people who don’t want to hear about the gray, the subtle, the nuanced. FOX viewers want everything black and white, bad vs. good. FOX viewers go there, not to be informed, not to hear both sides of an issue, but only to hear their preconceived ideas confirmed.

      So it’s both. FOX does little to give it’s audience a balanced view of the news, or give it’s audience a broad view of events in the world (events that don’t fit their narrative), and people go to FOX because they don’t want to think. They want to hear what they already believe and nothing else.

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    • Belchfire V-8
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:24pm

      Hey BMWRIDER, since I am retired military, and an FAA licensed aircraft powerplant mechanic, and many of my military educated friends also watch Fox News exclusively, you owe us an apology. You liberals ALWAYS go straight to personal attacks. Don’t you have anything more enlightening to say?

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:32pm

      This is a bunch of BUNK. Untrue, lies, just like the current administration.

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    • bmwrider
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:50pm

      @Belchfire: I’m glad my tax dollars allow you to enjoy your government jobs.

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    • Berealalready
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 11:45pm

      I watch FOX news and got 8 of the 9 questions. I suppose one question would be, can you trust the study itself? And hey, and to all of you posting insults (both lib and con), lighten up. We are countrymen. Let’s try to have some respect even for those we disagree with.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:33am

      BMWRIDER
      “@watermain: Haha, I also have a Harley Sportster, but the BMW is my favorite. I highly doubt you even ride…”

      BMW Rider,

      That’s not what you said months ago when I posted that “Real men don‘t ride BMW’s”

      You mocked Harley’s back then. Troll

      You know what the difference is between a BMW, and a Hoover………The location of the dirt bag.

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    • KyleD
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:37am

      Whether or not the university is real the study is definately faked or doctored…it‘s physically impossible for someone who doesn’t watch news at all to know more about news than those who do, it doesn’t matter which.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:42am

      Hey JZS,

      My, that was so original of you. Like we have not heard that before.

      Funny thing though JZS, most people that watch FOX, also watch some msnb, cnn, etc, along with a good deal of reading. It’s helpful to know your adversaries.

      Whereas media matters trolls like you expose yourself to very little media other than your talking points source.

      http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=267

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    • Firebrand
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:43am

      The study was conducted incorrectly. The questioners asked about political affiliations and the major news source BEFORE they asked the questions. This could introduce bias into the sample from the person asking the question. Also, at least half of the study should have been conducted by an independent party outside of the progenitor group (an internal bias control) and the study should have been repeated by a group of conservatives in addition to the liberals that ran the study (an external bias control). If you look up the courses that the profs teach, papers they’ve published, and talks they’ve given, you can tell that they have a high propensity for liberal bias in their study. To prevent anyone from crying foul, they should have removed that bias as best as possible.

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    • tomcat741
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:46am

      Its Real just totally wrong.

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    • Gizzy
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:24am

      I heard the liberals were given 4 hours of prep time for the 9 questions.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:40am

      I haven’t watched much of Fox since Beck left. Occasionally I‘ll tune into O’Reilly for a brief stint, or catch a Sunday morning show.

      My point is I don’t care who trashes Fox News. If you think you’re insulting me, you’re just burning your own energy. It’s seems clear to me the study was conducted poorly. Asking one’s political affiliation before any other questions sounds completely suspect.

      They state in the report that “…news sources should help people learn…” REALLY?

      The fact that they state that Republicans were “oversampled” sounds like it was thrown in to discredit Republicans. Finally, 1,100 people is not a representative sample. Even if we figure only half the population would be capable of answering most of the questions, that’s just 0.000007% of the population. I bet I could sift through 1100 people and get whatever results I wanted.

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    • Quack Addict
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:04am

      How does a survey of 1,000 people in a country of 300 millions prove anything?

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:21am

      I posted this article on another story right before it wa posted here. Funny. I am not saying that Fox viewers are less informed than watching any of the other networks, I say that you are less informed if you only watch, ANY of them. Fox is no better than any other network news. They just have a different spin, even O’Reilly with his no spin zone. He has his own spin on everything. You want real news? search the blogs and learn what other people are saying. That is where you will get the feelings of the people. Some good, some bad. You have to learn to take the good with the bad, it is the way life is.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 6:37am

      Libs have always whined about and criticized FNC, but Obama wants to destroy the network. Some of the stuff his apparat is doing to take down Fox News is not even public knowledge.

      This survey purports to demonstrate that:
      1) if you are a conservative you are already dumb, but Fox News will make you dumber.
      2) if you are a liberal and watch Fox News, you will become as dumb as conservatives.

      The Obama minions know conservatives won’t buy into their propaganda, but it might sway independents and Dims who are contemplating high treason. We must expose these Alinskyian tactics, or they will work. The right has to fight; not just defend itself, but make preemptive strikes. We must go after the Occupier with everything we’ve got, or we’re toast.

      Remember, commies lie till they die.

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    • MacWell
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 6:51am

      Fairly ridiculous has been an ongoing joke here in NJ for a long time. My brother in law went there and take a guess which side of the isle he leans toward?

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:02am

      Well I’m finally convinced……..guess I‘ll get the premium membership to rev al’s website and slap that msnbc bumper sticker on my truck………

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    • little big man
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:26am

      Gee I had NO problem answering the questions. but come on does anybody think watching liberal biased NPR that those numb nuts are the smartest. maybe they should poll people watching CNN MSNBC next

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:28am

      I’m sure that this “University” is nothing more than a lap dog for PBS (Politbureau Broadcasting Service) the official mouthpiece for the ultra liberal left and the Odummer Chicago politicians.

      Personally, I watch FOX NEWS consistantly and exclusively and I answered the questions correctly. I’m sure they stacked the results to favor the Communists and picked the answers of the least informed.

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    • DonaldH
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:33am

      HaHa!!@BMWRider– you also have a Harley Sportster?? BRAHAaaaaaaa!! counting your sisters 883 Hugger doesn’t really count as “having a Harley,too” unless, of course, you are a girl— or tiny in physical stature for a man—or gay– the latter would explain the BMW— You ride the Harley on days you want to show-off your 11.5 inch biceps? brahhaaaaaaaaaaa

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    • DonaldH
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:44am

      I got one wrong— but I admit I had to look up who won the N.H. Primary–I was right, By the way. and I threw the question about the unemployment rate out— even MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR,NBC
      can’t seem to agree with one another on that number…

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:47am

      All those questions were no brainers…..how did people score so low?

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:54am

      This writer is factually wrong: Oversampling REDUCES the margin of error. There goes the premise of the bias “argument.”

      Regardless, after a sample is stratified in such a way, that variable is weighted when the final calculations are made so that the population is distributed in realistic proportion.

      Fell asleep during Intro to Statistics, I guess.

      Another trash “article” from those supposedly “addicted to fact.”

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    • virgie morgan
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:07am

      @Lukerw…I could answer almost all of those questions. Too bad they didn’t include GBTV because we are the most informed of them all. I’ll bet most other GBTV subscribers can answer those questions too. Maybe they will poll us and find out who is really informed and who isn’t.

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:06am

      Make a pretty graph and you can say what you want. And I’m sure Fairly Dickinson has no political agenda ….. yeah.

      Silversmith

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    • Richard_Cranium
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:08am

      After witnessing the transformation that FOX News has undergone the past couple years, I would’nt be surprised. FOX has become a left leaning piece of milquetoast.

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    • LookTowardsTheLight
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:10am

      @bmwrider

      You’re a real piece of s/h/i/t. How dare you ridicule a member of our armed forces. You spit on soldiers don’t you?

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    • Belchfire V-8
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:12am

      BMWRIDER, just be glad that people served and helped keep us free, so you can have your silly rants. I suppose you don’t want a military.

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    • Mia Cav
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:13am

      It exists; but I find it amusing that their web site is “FDU” – really, no one thoght this would make for comedy?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:30am

      A real world indication of just how bogus this “survey” is would be the recent incident of a teenaged school boy’s scuffle with his teacher on “slandering” Barack Obama. The teacher spouted the lefty talking point that Romney is a bully. The teenager returned with the fact that Obama (in the memoir he had Bill Ayers write for him) admits he bullied also. The teacher would have none of it and said that the teenager could be arrested for what he was saying and that people were arrested for slandering Bush. Both of these were falsehoods. The marxstream media was not reporting the fact that Obama admitted he was a bully..this story was only being run on fox and conservative outlets ont the web. Thus..the boy was more informed than his own teacher..thanks to Fox.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:32am

      These figures don’t mean squat! Only about 10,000 folks watch Msnbs and I saw on AOL Yesterday that CNN had the lowest ratings in it’s history. Fox news on a bad 1 hr. segment has almost 1 million viewers. My internet is thru AOL(dial-up) and as much as they hate it they have to run stories that they nomally wouldn’t but after exposer on the Blaze the cat is out of the bag. Once on the internet it kinda goes world wide.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:38am

      All liberals that watch these FOUL MOUTHED shows ie: Maher,
      Stewart, OBMSNBC are better informed..Just ask one…Cant
      debate or talk to a Liberal…..you will be “RACIST”, or a “BIGOT”..
      All liberals that watch these FOUL MOUTHED shows ie: Maher,
      Stewart, OBMSNBC are better informed..Just ask one…Cant
      debate or talk to a Liberal…..you will be “RACIST”, or a “BIGOT”..
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGwtG8nVpUU

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:42am

      “The study even “determined” that many people who watch no news at all are more informed than those who watch Fox News, and, of course, people who watch the Daily Show are more informed than both of the above.”

      Hahahahahahaha!

      Left wing objectivity!

      A “university study.”

      Hahahahahaha!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:47am

      RIGHTSOFBILLY…JZS loves these kinds of “surveys”. He almost falls over himself to post when they pop up.
      You may recall that JZS was touting the polls and surveys that media matters told him to tout during the doomed-to-fail campaign on “the war on women” (launched again by his keepers at Media Matters). The polls and surveys he agreed to tout for Media Matters were done by Obama appointees and Planned Parenthood’s research arm…..biased much?

      I guarentee you this survey will also be exposed to be bogus as was the similar one in 2010.

      For instance look at the “Iran sanctions” question. There’s two possible answers both are correct…one is “to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons aspirations”..the other is “to economically isolate and damage Iran” ( one doesn‘t have to go on to say they’re tailored to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons aspirations because that would be the logical extension of the economic harm being done to Iran but it answers the question nonetheless).

      And the “currently unemployed” question. You can say 8.1% that reflects the reduced workforce under Obama, or you can quote the underemployement rate that includes every unemployed person which is much higher..and these figures range in the teens. The underemployment rate is rarely-if ever- mentioned on MSNBC or any of the other news outlets other than Fox because it makes Obama look weak and ineffectual.

      See how it works?

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:49am

      @BMWrider…

      well lets see…I have pretty much only watch Fox News and local broadcast for the last 15 years… so by your words…I am stupid..

      well then…how many did you answer correctly…??

      I answered all the 9 posted questions perfectly…care to compare my 100% to your knowledge.. heck, I will even go get the rest of the asked questions from the survey and we will see who answers more….

      NOW…I know you are a ******* but NO cheating..you can’t run upstairs and ask your mommy or phone a friend or look at your neighbors paper but I will let you call Jon Stewart for his answers, I am sure he couldn’t even match the Conservatives watching MSNBC response level….so yeah, use him…

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    • drattastic
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:57am

      If you get your “news” from any TV media you are being manipulated ,lied to , under informed ,misinformed or not informed at all . TV news is simply entertainment . BTW libs sure love to pat themselves on the back and don’t much care how they get there.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:06am

      SORRY !! Think I‘m having an O’Biden Day….

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:20am

      Knock knock…
      Who’s there?

      A forum full of people who don’t understand basic stats, and a Blaze “reporter” who apparently does not either.

      Margin of Error DECREASES with oversampling. Erica Ritz, your argument is based on false premises.

      Not surprising that conservatives have their own version of statistical rules.

      You guys look like morons.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:32am

      This must be the Talking Point MEMO of the Day from
      O’Blamers WH office..this is all the Cable Channels will
      be talking about today.. Just how stupid the conservitives
      are..They are deathly afraid to talk about the real issues..
      or about O’Blamers record….

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    • Pat Magroin
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:22pm

      @BMWRIDER Wow, that‘s the best you’ve got, Foxtards? I‘m disappointed you didn’t throw in a few homophobic slurs like most well informed liberals.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:35pm

      If We were given the “Daily Show”WH Talking Point Memo..
      We would be as SMART as Pelosi, Reid, Waters, Lee.
      Hank Johnson and Frederica Wilson..as educated these
      Liberals claim to be, these are the IDIOTS they elect to
      represent them, HMMMMM ????? Oh, and O’Blamer
      GOOGLE any of these Morons, will make your eyes water…
      or better yet, check them out on YOUTUBE…clowns……..
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmg1aY6_AJI
      This is an example of two Liberal Representatives, Niceeee !!

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    • Firebrand
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 2:15pm

      @best
      There are so many things wrong with the experimental set-up of their survey I’m not really sure how to get it into one post. Let me address your criticisms first.

      While it is true that “oversampling” SHOULD reduce the margin of error, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it does. This is especially true if the calculated mean is based on two disparate populations. Also, since the number of people surveyed was finite, the number of people “watching only liberal sources” would have to be under-sampled and therefore the true value for that group underrepresented.

      This study is what happens when political science professors don’t consult statisticians/mathematicians for experimental design and implementation. The researchers didn’t group the answers by questioner to look for questioner bias. Actually, they didn’t run any bias controls whatsoever. They didn’t give statistical analysis of deviations between the groups to show whether or not the difference between 1.48 and 1.84 is actually significant. Also, they asked only 3-4 questions from each category. Did they cross-reference the news sources to determine if each of those news sources covered each of those topics equally? If not, did they have a logistical temporal control? In other words, did they then follow up with questions on topics that were given equal time on each network?

      In short, their study is extremely bland (take it with a grain of salt).

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    • caleejr
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 2:22pm

      Just Ask Chris Matthews ….with his recent showing on Jeopardy – he’s proven that people that watch the MSM are WELL INFORMED. LOL

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    • kingbee
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 2:55pm

      They call it Fairly Ridiculous U up there.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:04pm

      @firebrand
      Thanks for the rigorous critique. I couldn’t articulate what I sensed was wrong, so I was glad to see someone with the chops could demonstrate and articulate what was mathematically disturbing about the study.
      Although I left the social science end of my discipline back at the master’s level, my reading skill also allows me to see another design flaw here. Did you notice in the methodology section (here: http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/) that they mention all participants were called on the phone at the same time of day over a stretch including 3 weekdays and 2 weekend days? They do NOT mention WHAT time that was. My guess is they’re hiding the fact that they called when they were likely to catch someone home, and that the someone they caught was more likely to be the household member more interested in the home than in politics. By no means do I intend to stereotype here, and so I’ll leave it at that. I just think traditionally there’s likely to be more republicans at home who care about values more than being informed, because the values don’t change much, and the news is unfiltered sensationalist trash most of the time. And that makes them smart and rational, not stupid and uneducated.
      In any case, the lead researcher contradicts himself when he claims Fox news is less informative: that’s not what his study is designed to show or not show.

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    • DisgruntledInClinton
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:52pm

      As someone who goes to several websites a day, I disagree with this survey. People who comment on conservative sites, such as Drudge, Breitbart, Blaze, etc. are smarter, funnier, and have much better writing (and spelling) skills than those on HuffPost, Politico, etc.

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    • merlieannie
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:08pm

      It is a real college. We used to call it “fairly ridiculous”. It has a nice campus (trying to be positive )

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    • American Cherokee
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:16pm

      Why did Blaze report this crock of ****? Just to show how unethical and nonsensically bizarre some “universities” and obsessed groups are.
      Only 2 of the questions could be considered “mostly” factual. The others are completely up to opinion. Therefore anyone who disagrees with “the university’s” opinion could be declared wrong.
      I worked for and know market research companies. Some do unbiased, wide sampling of opinions and results. But many will have many people start studies or questionaires and if anyone is not giving the answers they or “a client” want, they terminate those persons’ questionaires or throw those away later. And include only the ones that fit the outcome or image they are wanting to present.
      Also like this so called study; Many use very slanted, biased questions to on purpose get the results they want.
      “You don’t give the answers I want so obviously you must be stupid.”
      “You give the answers I order so you must be very smart.”
      An intelligent person knows there are usually no one-word or one-line answers to anything. Most subjects have many varying aspects and facts. Especially news or events.
      Apparently the “study” people don’t know that. Or don’t care.
      The “study” itself is obviously VERY BIASED. And ironically, STUPID.

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    • gena t
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:19pm

      this is probably the first time anyone has heard of this “university,” and will probably be the last time, if this is the best work they have ever come up with, a poorly done survey with an intent set before the study to prove what they wished it to prove (why conservatives were oversampled, which is itself what unbiased studies take care not to do, to over represent one category of subjects so as to prove their point).
      Is this one of those on line, snake oil schools that Obama has been warning veterans to not attend?

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    • afdbghq
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:35pm

      Best_Patriot – All I need to know about you is shown by the picture us use A HORSES ASS because that is exactly what you are a liberal horses ass

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:52pm

      Why should I believe a study fro Fairly Dicklicking University?

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    • Evantoo
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 5:15pm

      Actually, Fairy-Dick’s son, does exist, but is rather mis-understood. That having been said, the results of any poll from a liberal college are greatly suspect.
      If I wanted to conduct a poll to get the results I wanted it would be extremely easy. It is done one of two usual ways: use a targeted response group (meaning ask questions of a group you already know will respond the way you want them to), and secondly, word the questions so as to get only the response you want. Have done is many times and can tell you within 5% what the totals will be.
      One word of caution though! Do not try to intentionally target Liberals. They, as a group, are amongst the stupidist people that walk the Earth, as demonstrated by their electing a complete unknown to take them down the path of infamy.

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    • PB in Memphis
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 5:31pm

      This study, if I am reading it right, basically says everyone is an idiot relating to the questions being asked. Fox, 1 question answered correctly, but OOOOOO NPR almost 1.5 answered correctly. Still very poor results.

      TO me, that isn’t much difference on score of 1 to 10. Plus, can Reps claim bias like most liberals… the questions were skewed for the leftie because they were asked by a leftie. LOL!!!

      But seriously, if 1,000 people could only average less than 1.5 correct questions, the whole study basically proves nothing… except that almost all the people questioned were idiots. I got 8-9 of the sample questions right. Something is wrong with those questioned or I didn’t understand the results correctly.

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    • heyousguys01
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 6:31pm

      Friends and I used to call the “school” by the name of “fairly Ridiculous.” This story only confirms how right we were!

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 6:41pm

      TEAMARCHESON
      How exactly are these ‘propaganda questions’? They are just questions about factual things going on in the world. What a stupid remark, you’re proving the thesis by such inane comments.

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    • phunkejay
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:05pm

      JZS – I listen to both Fox & NPR regularly. I do this because I want to get the news from both slanted perspectives. Each of these sources cover the same stories and, yes, each gives more time to one story or another. But do not deign to imply that NPR gives a balnced view (”Fox does little to give it’s audience a balanced view”) of any of it’s news stories – they do not. The stories they choose to report, the facts they choose to emphasize, the juxtapostion of their stories, the omissions in their reporting, etc. are just as biased, slanted, and designed to reinforce the liberals own preconceived ideas. All couched in soft-spoken, pseudo-intellectual, faux-eruditious, morally superior tones – to better foster the dellusional notion that NPR is a legitimately fair news organization.

      I listen everyday to them (for at 3-4 hours a day) and they ARE NOT legit. They are a left leaning propaganda machine.

      But I know you listen to and swear by them, so please forgive me if I’ve hurt your precious little liberal feelings.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:13pm

      I appreciate the statistical analysis, but why bother. Did you guys take a look at the FIRST survey, PublicMind conducted in NJ in Nov. 2011? It’s a joke. FLAWED POLL, try again — and they did, this time nationwide. Some of the flawed Qs were corrected the second time around, but PublicMind never even admitted the initial survey was flawed. They don’t have a clue how to conduct a scientific survey, and any objective person can tell they are a propaganda tool for Obama. Circular file the whole thing.

      First, the language used in the initial survey is clearly biased and unscientific, and I quote: “The conclusion: Sunday morning news shows do the most to help people learn about current events, while some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who say they don’t watch any news at all.” Key words: “…especially Fox News.” They single out one news outlet from the entire survey in the first paragraph of their “analysis.” Obama tool exposed.

      Look at the two Qs. in re Egypt and Syria. They are poorly phrased, because the word used is “regime,” not Mubarak or al-Assad, respectively. To this day, many Egyptians claim Mubarak’s military regime is still in control of Egypt. Ignoramuses exposed. (CONT.)

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:26pm

      FLAWED FIRST SURVEY (CONT.)
      The OWS question is the greatest joke of all: “…are these protestors mostly Republican or Democrats?” Who says they have to be either? News for you PubicMind morons, they are MOSTLY self-identified Marxists and anarchists (non-Marxist commies). Their banners: “Communist Party USA,” “Democratic Socialists of America,“ ”Fight for Socialism.” Endorsed by: The American Nazi Party, Working Families Party, Service Employees International, ACORN, the New Party and the DNC. Propagandists exposed.

      The OWS question is typical commie disinformation. They spread class warfare but concomitantly lull the populace into thinking we still have a Democrat vs. Republican paradigm, i.e., the proverbial “boil the frog slowly so you can keep it from jumping out of the pot.” Since even some Dims are now catching on and don’t like it, the OWS Q. was promptly deleted from the second survey.

      Later.

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    • PresidentDowngrade
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:44pm

      Actually since Murdock got his ares handed to him in Brittan by the illuminate there has been zero useful news on Fox. I watch the Five because I like most of the people. After that if I want news I look at Drudge. The commentators on Fox are either clueless to what is going on or just collecting a paycheck and doing what the producers want. Pathetic. A real news source would be pounding every day that the Fed is a PRIVATE FOREIGN BANK and we are slaves.

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    • Rollo2
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:19pm

      I answered all the questions correctly and I’m watching Foxnews right now!

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    • Rollo2
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:21pm

      Probably the folks who were asking the questions marked every answer wrong, no matter the answer.

      This is bogus.

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    • Rollo2
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:00pm

      Of the “don’t know” answers, the Dems scored 393 clueless, while the Repubs scored 319 in that catagory.

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:12pm

      phunkejay, you’ve made an argument and given your basis for your opinion. I appreciate that.

      Honestly I can’t argue with you on evidence, at least none that I can say in a few words.

      People have perceptions and opinions and the judge the “neutrality” of news based on those ideas. So there’s a broad range of presentation that could be viewed as biased one way or another depending on your opinion.

      But here‘s a metric I’d like you to consider. Going forward ask yourself if you ever, and I mean ever, hear a positive story about Obama on FOX. And I‘ll give you that we’ll ignore the opinion shows, which is most of FOX’s airtime (Hannity, O’Reilly, the morning people and whomever else). You know they never says anything positive about the President. Quite the opposite actually, every comment is negative. I think we agree on that. Okay, it’s a conservative station. You know that. That’s opinion.

      But look at the straight news. Will you ever hear a positive thing, anything, about the President, no matter how many terrorist he kills? No, of course not. Never. That’s your view of unbiased, because your belief is the President of the United States as never done one single thing you agree with, he’s weak on terrorism or whatever.

      The idea that FOX is fair and balanced and more unbiased than NPR is ludicrous, unless you think that every single thing this President has accomplished is bad.

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    • Hollywood
      Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:11am

      Who are you talking about? Jon Bon Jovi? Must be late night nobodies? Where,OH where is Carson?? Rest a BUNCH of SELF important NOBODIES

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on May 25, 2012 at 1:31am

      @JZS of May23
      It’s rare, but I actually agree with you on this one: the news end of FOX has a much bigger audience than its competition because its audience contains more people who go to get informed in a way that affirms their ideological leanings.
      Where we’ll still disagree is that the conservative ideology that is affirmed is more concerned with neutral facts in their context–so the affirmation of ideology in FOX is actually a good thing. CNN, and NPR which each pretend to objectivity both twist fact, and elide context in order to make the liberal ideologues in their audience and reporter/editor corps happy. That’s liberalism in a nutshell–can’t come at us straight.

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    • BackToIRELAND
      Posted on May 25, 2012 at 10:00am

      It’s a real university. Here in NJ we refer to it as Fairly Ridiculous University.

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    • GardenoftheGods
      Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:21am

      I watch Fox News & I got every question right…but then again I’m also informing myself from different types of social media & news outlets….only watch news on Fox tho’

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    • SuperDuty
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 12:34pm

      LMAO – BMWRIDER you must be a girl because a Sportster is definitely a girl’s bike!

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    • syjere
      Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:16am

      Yeah, welcome to opposite world. Backward is forward, God’s immoral, right is wrong, and patriotism equates terrorism. You get the narrative. This is the worst propoganda ******** since Hitler. It’s a disgrace. Now, if you REALLY want to get mad, or white guilt, your choice, visit STOP The Unfair Campaign group on facebook. Now THAT’S some genocidal propoganda to sink your teeth into.

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    • syjere
      Posted on June 25, 2012 at 3:20am

      Correction: Check out The Unfair Campaign Facebook page. The moderator deletes all questions and comments that raise a valid question, so don’t bother. But, then swing by the STOP The Unfair Campaign page, and spout off. We have to speak up about this. I foresee very bad things if we don’t.

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  • rickc34
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:04pm

    Just like all liberal attacks they appear to be wrong.

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    • Uranium Wedge
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:16pm

      Fairleigh Dickinson University?
      More like Fairy DICK-inson University

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    • copatriots
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:20pm

      I think it’s hysterical. Just what exactly would the questions look like that they gave to the average Dem voter. Somehow I think it would be along the lines of “how do you spell dog?”

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:30pm

      Erica Ritz, you are an idiot. Yes, MSNBC also had low scores but on the average, FOX viewers were still more uninformed than MSNBC.

      You say that the most uninformed are actually conservatives who watch MSNBC. However, this is likely due to the fact that conservatives who watch MSNBC will not believe a single thing they see on that network and just watch it to point out how it is wrong. In case you didn’t notice, liberals who watch MSNBC are much more informed than conservatives who do the same. The same correlation goes for viewers of FOX. Liberals who watch are less informed than conservatives, likely because they only view it for the same reasons and won’t take anything out of it.

      In the end, none of this changes that fact that FOX viewers are the least informed. And, as much as you hate to say it, people who watch the Daily Show are more informed than FOX viewers.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:48pm

      Godfather, You are an idiot.

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    • Uranium Wedge
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:57pm

      @GODFATHER.1
      Thank you for life story. Now I don’t have to cry myself to sleep, cause I know you’re out there doing gods work. God bless you.

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:57pm

      The author of this “study” needs to learn the difference between “informed” and “indoctrinated”.

      Ask questions like

      1) “The Obama administration is using the strategy of which leftist intellectuals to create chaos and unrest”

      2) Which capitalist investment types are the Obama administration the largest beneficiaries of campaign contributions while they accuse them of rampant greed”?

      etc etc

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:36pm

      Copatriots it is not Democrats and Republicans, it is a study of the information content of various news providers.

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    • Belwraith
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:06pm

      Yes, Godfather…and NPR did better than both, so come off your high horse before you get a nosebleed

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    • gsplgtr
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:19pm

      No, if you come from New Jersey you refer to it as Fairly Ridiculous University.

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:34pm

      @godfather

      Let’s match intel, are you ready?

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:29am

      It’s hysterical to read the number of people who are posting as if you could actually use the results from the study as if they were empirical data to back up a logical argument.

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    • armyofnibiru
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 2:18am

      hey godlesfather can espouse your garbage without your hatered.these questions are simple like the ones in the 2008 elections.mr mcain what is the square root of 209483 x289453-90231,mr obamby whats your wifes favorite color. insults are the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:23am

      RealConservative? I do not hardly watch any MSM news, including Fox. I am ready, are you?

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    • nelbert
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 6:31am

      At the risk of evoking Godwin’s law, Nazi science produced studies proving the superiority of the Aryan race.

      Seems the current administration is following well trodden steps in history.

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:26pm

      The only thing I’m sure of is this, this study falling into the “damned lies” category (the old saying about statistical analysis). This survey proves nothing other than sime faculties are better at producing bafflegab than others. All of those questions are dead easy if you do your own digging (from multiple sources). As for MSLSD et all those prganizations are 1% news and 99% hysterical opinion reported as misguided “fact”. Propaganda is the most accurate description of CNN, MSLSD, NBC news etc desiminate on a noghtly basis. Many folks have seen right through the BS and are realizing the MSM is no longer credible (that same realization has tainted large sectors of academia and the sciences).

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:01pm

    I watch Fox news and I got 8 out of 9 – (I also read however)

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    • SHASTADIANE1
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:30pm

      I got all of them RIGHT, and I watch FOX, read the Blaze, and Fox online, listen to and watch GBTV and Glenn’s radio show, as well as RUSH, and Sean Hannity on radio. Usually Bill O’Reilly on the Factor also. Who says I am uninformed?? And on top of it all, I live in the SOUTH….

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    • FedUpWithLibs
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:12pm

      There is no way this is true. I would say 95% of the people I know who watch FOX are pretty smart people in all aspects. I feel uncomfortable calling myself smart but I am working on my PhD in physics. I think this just shows the libs insecurity about NOT being as smart as us.

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    • oldironsides
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:13pm

      how did you get 1 wrong? – although I know they want the answer for the euro bailout to be Germany, I do wonder if it’s the US through the world bank. and that unemployment question is tricky, but I know they mean the made up numbers.

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    • pickupyurcross
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:25pm

      9 out of 9 here. They apparently are asking the wrong people.

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    • Zer0
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:34pm

      I think everyone is missing the point of the study…. the results are essentially the SAME when Libs watch Lib networks and Cons watch Con networks, but on AVERAGE both seem to “tune out” when watching the opposition’s network. The tragedy is that on AVERAGE, BOTH Libs and Cons can score so low on such an easy test (judging from the sample questions). I do not think it is the networks as much as the audience and their (in)ability to retain information. I believe that the study is a sad reflection on both Lib and Con audiences, thus a reflection on our education system.

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    • friedclouds
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:46pm

      I got 8 of 9 right for sure, but couldn’t remember what the Repubs got for extending the payroll tax cut….which is really a plan to reduce future Social Security payouts. Was it an empty promise to lower spending?

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  • Seth Patriot
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:59pm

    Question 10:
    Is Fairly Ridiculous a real University?

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  • Watermain
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:58pm

    I’ll bet that the average Fox News viewer is smarter than the average professor at Fairleigh-Dickenson University…

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    • Blazesurfer
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:28pm

      Still laughing!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:50am

      Too true !!! They are afraid .. very afraid!

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    • Redwood Elf
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 2:33pm

      What I’d like to see is a study of liberal professors (Multiple choice) that asked for the sources of 100 quotations from sources like Adolph Hitler, Barak Obama, Communist loonies, and the bible (For example, “from each according to his ability, To each according to his need”) and asked if they were from
      A: The US Constitution
      B: The Communist Manifesto
      C: The Bible
      D: Adolph Hitler
      E: Conservative Pundits
      F: Liberal Pundits
      G: Rush Limbaugh
      H: Glenn Beck
      I: Barak Obama.

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  • marcus_arealius
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:57pm

    Here‘s my answer to ALL of the questions ’Who GIVES A CRAP??’

    Excuse me but you must have me confused with someone who gives a sh.t. !

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    • PJL
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:30pm

      No, not confusing you with someone who is informed…( 8 out of 9 here)

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:56pm

    Just another liberal Screed against Conservatives to make themselves feel superior.

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  • Orpheus75
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:56pm

    Another University did the same thing about a year ago. I remember some libs posting on Facebook making the exact same statements using those results. Funny thing was, they touted how “factual” their data was, while using a conjectural statement that viewing of Fox resulted in “more misinformation”. Love the way they twist that one around.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:18pm

      Typical .. they can’t attack the message so they attack the messenger .. just another lib tactic that plays only to the base.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:55pm

    That’s BULL

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    • justangry
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:52pm

      Well, a lot of Fox viewers think Obama and the Democrats are the only ones trampling the Constitution and destroying our freedoms. Plus their eager to go to war in the middle east based on that BS propaganda even though a Saudi prince owns a good chunk of Newscorps and Rupert’s a CFR member.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:27am

      JustAngry, Good point. I do not follow any of the TV news channels. I get all my news from across the internet. Most on here just put their faith in Fox, which I used to put all my faith into, but they have not figured out that they are minipulating people. Some of it is real news, most of it is opinion that people think is news anymore.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:54pm

    Actually the questions they asked were:
    1. If you were a tree, what kind would you be? Answer: Potted Plant
    2. Which gay partner stands on the left of the priest when they get married? Answer: The one with the most body hair. (doesn’t matter, it applies to lesbians and Gays)
    3. When purchasing online porn, can you use your EBT? Answer: Of course, but only if it is “Food for the Soul” Porn.
    4. When aborting your baby, can you claim it as a deduction for that year that you were pregnant? Answer: Yes, of course, but only if you wait until the third trimester to abort it, and of course, you have to name it.

    So you see, these questions are well above the Fox news crowd, but not too far above the Daily Show or MSNBC crowd.

    Sarcasm Off.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:24pm

      DARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA

      “4. When aborting your baby, can you claim it as a deduction for that year that you were pregnant? Answer: Yes, of course, but only if you wait until the third trimester to abort it, and of course, you have to name it.”

      You forgot to mention that you must also obtain a Social Security Number for the aborted fetus prior to filing for that year’s taxes.

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    • loveoursoldiers
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:01am

      5. if you need contraception should you spend the $7.00 /month to buy it or should you continue to drink that $7.00 in Starbuck’s coffee and have your neighbor pay for your pills?

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  • aChameleon
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:54pm

    Don’t watch MSNBC. The graph clearly shows you will go brain dead, as a conservative, watching that nonsense.

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  • nonofmybiznez
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:53pm

    Total BS. I might have gotten one wrong.

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:37pm

      A number of these questions do not have a single definitive answer which in the end skews the end result. The EU bail out and Iran sanctions questions have more than 1 answer.

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  • QC Ghost
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:53pm

    A positive response to “Do you hate your country?” would have given FoxNews the edge, but left-wing hacks would never think to ask that question.

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  • AmazingGrace8
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:53pm

    I prefer “even-numbered” questions so Q.10 = Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago? (there is no right or wrong answer to this question)

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    • RGFROMTEXAS
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:00pm

      I am better off today than I was Four Years Ago !! The stock market has seen to that. Also better off than four years ago are: Hannity, Beck , Limbaugh, Palin, Ingaham, etc. These people who give out misinformation and claim that this President doesn‘t present any opportunities in today’s world are getting filithy rich !!! Go Figure !!!

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    • FireRose
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 2:53am

      RGFROMTEXAS — Obama did not give them those opportunities! Viewers/listeners who are fed up with liberal crap are the people who support them. If they’re gaining wealth, it’s because the rest of the media fails to tell enough of the truth to satisfy.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:52pm

    My personal study has determined after quick and due consideration of one second that the university study is utterly full of hot air and deliberatly skewed to the leftist of the administration.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:56pm

      At least they were not written in the “stlye” that Ed Shultz uses.

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Agreed Snow. The survey represents 1000 only and cannot be extrapolated to accurately reflect the other 299,998,000 in the nation.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:52pm

    What? No one could answer 2 questions correctly (on average)? I missed #’s 7 and 8 because I just plain forgot. Got the rest correct.

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  • Zcat
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:51pm

    They wished! However they will continue to try with trickery and lies, remember repetition is the key to effective brainwashing.

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  • PETTYDRAMA
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:50pm

    DUH! Just like the people that are mindless followers of Beck and his bible site, the blaze. You can’t get any more obvious than that…LOL!

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    • Banter
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:08pm

      Every time you click on this site you put another coin in Glenn’s pocket. Thanks for the support. Moron.

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    • aChameleon
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:09pm

      Beck University graduates get 100% on all tests political, past and present. Now, can I get a boohyah!

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    • Watermain
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:21pm

      Google bible and tell me if Glenn Beck is a result. Go away.

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    • GenOptimus
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:39pm

      Oh my, looks like PETTY wet his diaper again. Don‘t worry he’ll calm down when he watchs CNN with all the other fifty thousand immature Obama butt-kissers across the nation; while the millions of us enjoy the truth here.

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    • nobama2012yeswecan
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:16pm

      its amazing that you use beck to get your imfo then throw him under the bus…is that you Mr. President?.beck has done more for humanity in the last year than the entire networks put together or their bitter employees..all of them put together..typical liberal envy

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  • Cap8tain
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:50pm

    Amazing, The extremes the libs will go!

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  • zacharytcuster
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:50pm

    I get my news from the blaze so I got all the questions right!

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  • joebrooks
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:50pm

    To be completely honest I believe most Fox News viewers watch the network for the trainwreck confrontation between conservatives and liberals than for Facts. They side with personalities rather then seeking out information for themselves. I don’t watch CNN, MSNBC, or FoxNews, but been a Glenn Beck Insider member since 2004 and was able to answer all the questions correctly.

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  • hi
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:49pm

    I know two people who only watch PBS and they said they never heard that Berkshire Hathaway was in legal battle for not paying their taxes. They said I was lying until I showed them. Then they tried to defend Berkshire Hathaway and refused to see the hypocrisy of Buffet wanting to raise taxes.

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  • let us prey
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:47pm

    Puhleazee.

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:47pm

    Which country is presided over by the biggest arsehole in the history of the universe?

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    • Sorocialism
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:54pm

      At the moment? North Korea or Cuba.

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    • Benjack
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:58pm

      Wisehiney,
      I had just taken a drink of water when I read your post, had to clean off my screen thanks for the laugh!

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:59pm

      Ooh Ooh…. I KNOW THIS ONE!

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    • chips1
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:23pm

      Were they all born in Hawaii? No mention of it.

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    • oldironsides
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:05pm

      sorocialism – sorry, wrong answer – anyone else?

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    • Watermain
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:15pm

      Just a minute, I’m waiting for the chair of Political Science at F-D Univ. to get back to me with the right answer.

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    • Sinister1
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 5:16am

      My “8 ball” has been shaken.
      I’m awaiting reply from the triangle floating in liquid. It’s more accurate than any answer given by this current administration.

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:35am

      LOL…

      lucky I wasn’t drinking at the moment or my response would have been the same….at least you didn’t SNARF….

      my vote…has to be Canada right…always blame Canada…LOL

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  • Laken
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:45pm

    I don’t think Fox has anything to worry about.
    MSNBC has 2 viewers and CNN has 7

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:58pm

      So that would make like………27 viewers between the too of them…….right?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:59pm

      Hey CHARLES116,

      Just so you know, that was a joke.

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    • Laken
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:04pm

      K12….LOL

      Chris and Wolf are SO intelligent that they BOTH bombed on Jeoardy…..hahahahahahaha

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:05pm

      The problem though is their viewers keep switching channels back and forth between them, so its hard to tell if MSNBC might actually have 3 viewers and CNN 6.

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    • Laken
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 7:11pm

      Left out the p….oops

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:31pm

      Hey BILLY, haven’t seen CHARLES_IN_CHARGE116 here tonight. Must have too much BS under his fingernails from all of the crap he types.

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    • Cornflake
      Posted on May 25, 2012 at 2:19am

      All news channels STINK now. Glen Beck’s show was replaced with a show called, “The Five,” and one could actually lose drop a few braincells watching the show! Same old news that’s been chewed on ALL DAY LONG, being chewed on once again!! During the day, FNC, trys to keep viewers after commerical breaks by baiting the viewers with a headline and say, coming up next! Then the story won’t be reported for an hour, lol. But, it doesn’t surprise me that it appeared MSNBC, scored the highest. After all, it is O‘Blamer’s personal campaign network! If the questions relate in any manner to something he would have a tinge of involvement in, they are on top of it! One can hear the headlines in the a.m. and know the news that will be reported for the rest of the day. Except for MSNBC, which are THE GREAT DEFENDERS, of everything Obama. They can find someone to critize for disagreeing with their assessment. Newspapers may actually make a great comeback, or at least online newspapers. That way we won’t have to listen to so called journalist try to sway us with their bias.

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