Factual hearings rarely shift entrenched public opinion

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 45 Zach Schonfeld, “Public Opinion Relatively Unchanged After Jan. 6 Hearings: Poll,” Hill, August 9, 2022; Jennifer Agiesta, “CNN Poll: January 6 Hearings Haven’t Changed Opinions Much, But Most Agree Trump Acted Unethically,” CNN Politics, July 26, 2022; “National: Jan. 6 Hearings Have No Impact on Opinion,” Monmouth University Poll, August 9, 2022, https://www. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1145

Categorization

• XREF: Explains why Brown doesn’t expect the factual case for reparations to move public opinion by itself — a methodological caution relevant to the craft of the brief. — connects to: Disconfirming evidence rarely topples deeply held doctrines and worldviews. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 94; A burst of bad news rarely brings an established dogma crashing down.; Deliberative polling reveals the public would hold different views if it thought harder — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 767 (+7 more)