"according to a paper published in the #Personality and Social #Psychology Bulletin. The authors were surprised to discover that not only are #conspiracytheorists overconfident, they also don't realize their beliefs are on the fringe, massively overestimating by as much as a factor of four how much other people agree with them."
Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/conspiracy-theorists-think-their-views-are-mainstream/
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