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Carlyle Carl
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Former member of fake band Angry Carl. Academic pinko.
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Oh hey here's me in 2009, about journalists overestimate how much people already know, and the consequences that has. Holds up pretty well, I think! www.mediamatters.org/legacy/why-w...
One of those kinks -- one that doesn't get much attention - is the extent to which the media (and politicians and the people who work for them) overrate the amount of knowledge most voters have about politics and policy. You see it when they use insider jargon and acronyms in their reporting, assuming readers and viewers know what they mean. Do they? Do they really know what FISA is? Pay-Go? "Judicial activism"? This overestimation of how much knowledge most people possess is one of the causes of the media's failure to clearly and consistently report the facts about health care. They don't understand how necessary it is. They think they can focus on horse-race political coverage of the debate. They think if they report the facts once, that's often enough. They think the fact that people are satisfied with their health insurance tells us something about the quality and reliability of that insurance -- though it clearly doesn't. So the public, which -- again, understandably -- doesn't know much about a complex policy and lacks the time and resources to find out for itself, is exposed to a nonstop barrage of spin, misinformation, and outright lies about health care. And the media, overestimating how much people actually know, don't think they have to make the facts clear every day, over and over again. Is it really any wonder that people believe things that aren't true? Do we really need to relive the run-up to the Irag war all over again?
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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rnavarre.bsky.social
Ha! I meant to post these two here + this paper and somehow ended up posting it to my feed, not here! But all these works really get into how people actually interact with and see yhw state www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race–Class Subjugated Communities
Against the backdrop of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, we ask what the American politics subfield has to say about the political lives of communities subjugated by race and class. We ar...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Mettler's Submerged State (let us make our deliverisms break thru the surface)

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The Submerged State
“Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler’s provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social be...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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svateboje.bsky.social
two more good resources for this neck of the woods

Thorson's Invented State (w a hopeful look at remediation)
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The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
Abstract. Many Americans hold substantial misperceptions about what the government actually does. However, they get the facts wrong not because they are la
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October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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@pengzell.bsky.social asks about the social sciences, which I haven't looked at in a while. Indexing these against 2008 rather than peak, and struck that economics has been on a downslope for 6 years now, while psychology, the worst discipline, continues to rise rapidly.
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Chart titled 'Quality of Social Science Disciplines inversely correlated with change since 2008', showing that Criminology and Psychology have increased , economics is steady, and Polisci, anthro, IR, and Sociology are all down 30-40%
September 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM