Bob CollinsThis is a great social experiment which shows just how unwilling people are to admit they don’t know something. Remember it the next time you hear about a political poll. People will often believe that which they think they’re supposed to believe.
Why do we believe some things? Because we’re supposed to
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Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscutBob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.