GET ME REWRITE: We can thank Next Door for contributing to the false perception of USA crime rates

 

Top headline:  University of Houston, 3/27/2023

Bottom headline:  Governing, 1/11/2024 (box added)

From the UH summary:

Fetterman’s research was preceded and prompted by his prior work on science denial in which he found that personal experience is preferred over statistical information.

And strictly speaking, Mandela Barnes served as Lieutenant Governor in the administration of Tony Evers.   But the target audience of this scurrilous political ad is too dumb to know the difference.

  

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