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Study: Trump Supporters Say Less Is More In Inauguration Photos

A UMass survey found 14 percent of Trump supporters say more people are in the bottom photo. Why?
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A UMass survey found 14 percent of Trump supporters say more people are in the bottom photo. Why?

An article in the Washington Post caught our eye the other day. It described a study that looks into how respondents’ political beliefs may influence the way they answered simple questions about one of the persistent political scandals of our era — crowd size at the Trump inauguration. UMass Amherst Professor Brian Schaffner, director of the UMass poll, co-wrote the article. He spoke with WAMC’s Ian Pickus about the experiment and its findings.

News Director, ipick@wamc.org