low-information
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Ignorant, out of the loop, acting without an extensive or sophisticated understanding of a political situation.
Example Sentences
- "Among low information voters, attitudes are less ideologically consistent and hence do less to tie voters to parties."
- "The upshot is that low-information whites linked their racial attitudes to their partisan attachments at nearly the same high rates as their better-educated counterparts did in these two 2012 surveys."
- "Republicans' entire approach to distracting low-information working-class whites with "dog whistle, sound bites, and bumper sticker slogans" will have to change."
- "Mr. Trump does better with voters who lack college degrees, and he once declared, “I love the poorly educated.” Some who were aghast at his victory blamed the outcome on the irrationality of low-information voters.[…] They draw on “information shortcuts” to “think about who and what political parties stand for” and “what government can and should do.” They engage in “low-information rationality.”"
Inflected Forms
more low-information (comparative)
most low-information (superlative)