Episode 290: Loan Forgiveness and Lying to Pollsters Words & Numbers

We discuss two topics in-depth this week: student loan forgiveness and lying to pollsters. There’s an interesting technique for distinguishing between what voters say they believe and what they actually believe, and there’s a recent poll that uses this technique in asking people about their attitudes toward controversial topics.
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https://reason.com/2022/08/29/what-americans-think-about-marijuana-in-2022/
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