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low-information

low-information adjective: ignorant, out of the loop, acting without an extensive or sophisticated understanding of a political situation.

Adjective

low-information (comparative more low-information, superlative most low-information)

  1. (euphemistic) Ignorant, out of the loop, acting without an extensive or sophisticated understanding of a political situation.
    • Among low information voters, attitudes are less ideologically consistent and hence do less to tie voters to parties.2004, William E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman, Studies in Public Opinion: Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change., Princeton University Press
    • 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.2016, Michael Tesler, Post-Racial or Most-Racial?: Race and Politics in the Obama Era, University of Chicago Press

Forms of low-information

comparativemore low-information
superlativemost low-information

Questions about low-information

What does low-information mean?
Low-information means ignorant, out of the loop, acting without an extensive or sophisticated understanding of a political situation.
What part of speech is low-information?
Low-information is an adjective.

Words near low-information in the dictionary

  1. low-heartedness
  2. low-heeled
  3. low-impact
  4. low-income
  5. low-info
  6. low-information
  7. low-IQ
  8. low-key
  9. low-keyed
  10. low-keyness
  11. low-kill shelter

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