Filling the Gaps: Measuring Certainty in Political Knowledge

• In Event: Political Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Misperceptions

Brief Overview

Recognizing that people have varying levels of confidence in their political judgments, in a series of three national studies, I offer an alternative way to incorporate respondents’ certainty into their knowledge of government and politics.

Author

• Robert Lee Borges de Paula Vidigal, Stony Brook University