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Does skin color matter to you? Your test results might surprise you.

Do family ties influence voting patterns? Not really, since Obama is an eighth cousin to Dick Cheney and an 11th cousin to G. W. Bush.

If Obama wins will he really be the first black president? No, he’ll actually be the seventh.

What’s my point?

I thought that maybe, just maybe, using high-profile, emotionally-charged information might drive home the realization that your knowledge, even your self-knowledge, doesn’t always match the facts.

Do you look for discrepancies between your knowledge and the facts?

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