IF YOU DON’T FOLLOW THE NEWS YOU ARE UNINFORMED. IF YOU DO FOLLOW THE NEWS YOU ARE MISINFORMED. The more you trust the media, the less accurate you are.

The other day I wrote about the correlation between political ideology and assumptions about how many unarmed Blacks are killed by police. In it I discussed a study done by the Skeptic Research Center that showed that people who identify as liberal are least likely to guess how many unarmed Black men are killed by police.

Not by a little, but by a lot. Almost none of the liberals guessed in the right range–the number is about 10 a year–and over half guessed that the number was between 1000 to 10,000.

And that’s just the beginning. Read the whole thing.