Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? Here's what the science says (www.psypost.org)

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[-] SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

But the study, apparently, did not fall into that trap: “I was surprised by the fact that about 90% of the variables assessed significantly predicted conspiracy belief (of 52 variables). These results point to conspiracy belief being even more psychologically complex than I initially presumed,” Bowes told PsyPost.

[-] Rottcodd@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

That quote actually supports my point.

Exactly what is being said there is that the researchers did fall into just the trap I'm talking about, then were "surprised" when the study demonstrated that the matter was more complex and nuanced than they expected.