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| Title |
Social Influence in Televised Election Debates: A Potential Distortion of Democracy
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0018154 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Colin J. Davis, Jeffrey S. Bowers, Amina Memon |
| Abstract |
A recent innovation in televised election debates is a continuous response measure (commonly referred to as the "worm") that allows viewers to track the response of a sample of undecided voters in real-time. A potential danger of presenting such data is that it may prevent people from making independent evaluations. We report an experiment with 150 participants in which we manipulated the worm and superimposed it on a live broadcast of a UK election debate. The majority of viewers were unaware that the worm had been manipulated, and yet we were able to influence their perception of who won the debate, their choice of preferred prime minister, and their voting intentions. We argue that there is an urgent need to reconsider the simultaneous broadcast of average response data with televised election debates. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 40 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 12 | 30% |
| United States | 11 | 28% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 16 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 24 | 60% |
| Scientists | 14 | 35% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 47 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 2% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 39 | 83% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 8 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 13% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Other | 10 | 21% |
| Unknown | 5 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 13 | 28% |
| Psychology | 13 | 28% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 13% |
| Unknown | 6 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 102. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 May 2023.
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#418,959
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#1,326
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#34
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