(Mis)Informed: What Americans Know About Social Groups and Wh... - 9781108794817

(Mis)Informed: What Americans Know About Social Groups and Why it Matters for PoliticsAuthor(s): Marisa Abrajano, Nazita Lajevardi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108794817, 978-1108794817\nSynopsis\nThis Element examines just how much the public knows about some of America's most stigmatized social groups, who comprise [url] of the population, and evaluates whether misinformation matters for shaping policy attitudes and candidate support. The authors design and field an original survey containing large national samples of Black, Latino, Asian, Muslim, and White Americans, and include measures of misinformation designed to assess the amount of factual information that individuals possess about these groups. They find that Republicans, Whites, the most racially resentful, and consumers of conservative news outlets are the most likely to be misinformed about socially marginalized groups. Their .