Older people tend to be more conservative. Without looking at the data more closely, that "money paragraph" may just be stating an age/politics correlation in another way.

Facebook users also tend to be more conservative, I suspect.

The "money paragraph" is the part that handles the largest share of the variance, whether it confirms what we thought before hand or not--it's emphatically not the paragraph that most confirms what we already believe.

In other words, shun the confirmation bias.

"Confirmation bias" isn't a conservative bias, not in the political sense; it's a human bias. Pretty much nobody is naturally given to ignoring it, and it's an easy lapse to make. For example.

It's what Feynman talked about when he said that the easiest person to deceive is yourself, and we're all excellent at it. The proper target of critical thinking isn't the opponent's views--that we're going to expose to the most withering criticism we can find. No, the proper target of critical thinking, what makes it a useful tool for educated folk, is one's own views. The more we assume something must be true because we want it to be, and because it's a crucial assumption to our way of thinking, the more essential it is that it be subject to an onslaught of critical thinking.

That, of course, is heresy to nearly every person I know. Esp. the better educated.

tend to remember the days when you could trust the news and some still believe it.

Sometimes I think these studies by experts are a joke.

I had enough dealing with the Trumpers and false news

If not for my husband we wouldn't even have a cell phone.

who have little digital interaction -many don’t even have cable TV, let alone computers - still hear, repeat and believe fake anti-Obama, pro - tRump news.