A new study indicates that researchers' political ideologies tend to shape their scientific findings. An experiment involving 158 scientists revealed that personal views on immigration predicted the results obtained from identical data.
“The number of researchers who openly admitted to anti-immigration views was small compared to those with pro-immigration views. This imbalance makes it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about the magnitude of bias on the anti-immigration side.”
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“The number of researchers who openly admitted to anti-immigration views was small compared to those with pro-immigration views. This imbalance makes it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about the magnitude of bias on the anti-immigration side.”