When This Blows Over

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from the Washington Post article that is referenced -
"We define low-information voters as those who do not
know certain basic facts about government and lack
what psychologists call a “need for cognition."
Need for cognition is what I wonder about when
NFL linemen in a crucial third down jump off sides
because they forgot about that arcane and
complex rule.
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Somehow I'm reminded of the quote usually attributed to
John Kenneth Galbraith: "Faced with the choice between
changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do
so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
There's surely plenty of evidence that those with greater
cognitive ability use that ability to confirm and support their
existing views and not so much to question them.
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Gathering "information" is often confused with "thinking".
People gather lots of information; some people more than
others. That gathering of information doesn't necessarily
correlate to lots of thinking.