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What do you think of this research claiming bias against Christians? My immediate response was, "is it bias?" or is it informed opinion?

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To follow up, I did a search on scholar.google.com for "extremism political knowledge" and found this article on the 2nd page of results:

The Relationship Between Ideology, Information and Voting Behavior

Abstract: "The question of voter sophistication is important in understanding voter and candidate behavior in mass elections. We develop an index of voter information - based on perceptual data - and find that it is significantly related to ideological extremism and voting behavior. Individuals with a high level of information tend to be more extreme than those with more levels and are much more likely to vote."

I can't easily read the whole article but it sounds consistent with the phenomenon I described. Again, we can't distinguish the direction of causation here, but it seems unlikely that gaining more information can justify moving in both extremist directions. So I am inclined to think it is the other way around, that ideological extremists are driven to acquire more information.

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