Mis-Measuring Political Knowledge? Is the Public Less--or Still More--Ignorant than Commonly Thought?

• In Event: Political Knowledge and Survey Methods

Brief Overview

We examine both the downward and upward biases in conventional measures of political knowledge, reviewing existing evidence and adding some of our own. We conclude that the upward biases are considerably greater.

Authors

• Robert C. Luskin, The University of Texas at Austin

• Gaurav Sood, Unaffiliated

• Daniel Weitzel, University of Texas at Austin