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KindShowingImportancePrizesTopicIdentity Signaling
Claims about actions, statements, or expressed beliefs serving to communicate affiliation with or loyalty to a social group, especially when their social signaling function competes with conveying or evaluating factual information.
Most public assertions primarily signal group identity rather than communicate beliefs about truth.
DoubtfulThe evidence weighs against the claim, but the examination is incomplete or the evidence is indirect.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Cognitive Psychologyimportance · minorImportance 0.35, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Partisan expressive responding accounts for only a modest share of partisan gaps in survey reports of factual beliefs.
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Political Scienceimportance · minorImportance 0.35, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
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