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Fox News "Death Tax" Hysteria: Part VI (wait, no, Part IX, or is it... I've lost count)

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Friday November 16, 2012 · 11:55 AM PST

2012/11/16 · 11:55

How many different ways can Fox News instill false outrage into their viewership over the estate tax? As usual, it's all bullshit, but it's got new life today, having been folded into the "fiscal cliff" discussion.

Voter Shaming: A Tale of Two Strategies

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Saturday November 03, 2012 · 8:56 PM PDT

2012/11/03 · 20:56

Both the right and the left are guilt-tripping voters, counting on peer pressure to get out the vote, but each side is going about it a little differently, and with wildly different results. The basic idea, and the psychology behind it, is described in “Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment,” a research study authored by Alan Gerber and Donald Green of Yale, and Christopher Larimer of the University of Northern Iowa. The crux is simple: people are more likely to vote when they think they’re not keeping up with their neighbors’ voting trends. If everyone knows the Joneses are consistently voting, the Joneses’ neighbors are more likely to vote too.

So how has this played out in the 2012 presidential election?

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Which is creepier, the ALG mailer listing your neighbors' names, or the Moveon.org mailer, grading you against your neighbors?

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Which is creepier, the ALG mailer listing your neighbors' names, or the Moveon.org mailer, grading you against your neighbors?

ALG mailer

19 votes

Moveon.org mailer

2 votes

Neither is creepy at all, it's all public information, what's the fuss about?

6 votes

Both are equally creepy

35 votes

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