Durably Reducing Transphobia: A Field Experiment on Door-to-Door Canvassing
Broockman & Kalla (2016) · Science, 352(6282)
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What it found
One door-to-door conversation of about ten minutes, built on asking people to imagine being in someone else's shoes, made voters a lot less prejudiced against trans people. The change lasted at least three months. Voters were assigned at random, so this was a real experiment.
What it does not show
One issue, one city, one canvassing organisation. Later studies found the effect is real but harder to get when you try it on a bigger scale.
Where we rely on it
1 place in the academy. If this paper turned out to be wrong, this is the list that would have to change.
Cited alongside it
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A real study. We tell you what it found, how many people were in it, and what it can't prove.
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