Loosedhorse
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Classic anti-gunner tripe!
My goodness--researchers have discovered the power of suggestion! I wonder if this new discovery will have any effect on psychology...or advertising!
The "reporter" then misapplies the study results, assuming that anyone who regularly carries a gun--as opposed to persons who were just instructed by a researcher to handle a toy gun--are more likely to see a gun that's not there because of their habitual act of carrying a gun. But the study says nothing about people who routinely, legally CCW.
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."
William Tecumseh Sherman
The study was one in which subjects were given a toy gun (in a study setting). A logical assumption for the participant at that point would be, "Oh: this study is about guns." When they were then shown a fleeting picture, they were more likely to think there was a gun in the picture when there was not.Study finds holding gun makes you likely to think others have guns
My goodness--researchers have discovered the power of suggestion! I wonder if this new discovery will have any effect on psychology...or advertising!
The "reporter" then misapplies the study results, assuming that anyone who regularly carries a gun--as opposed to persons who were just instructed by a researcher to handle a toy gun--are more likely to see a gun that's not there because of their habitual act of carrying a gun. But the study says nothing about people who routinely, legally CCW.
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."
William Tecumseh Sherman
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