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Science discovers ‘magic trick’ that causes partisan voters to switch parties

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Researchers in Sweden have discovered a clever way to trick partisan voters into switching parties, through the application of a simple survey and some slight of hand. Exploiting a known defect in human psychology called “choice blindness,” researchers writing for the journal PLoS.