{"id":226977,"date":"2026-05-20T01:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226977"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:55:20","slug":"when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226977","title":{"rendered":"When politics enter the picture, credentials take a back seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans know what a real expert&#8217;s credentials look like: relevant degree, years of experience, and respect from peers. The problem, according to a study recently published in Scientific Reports, is that none of it matters as much once we find out their politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-politics-picture-credentials-seat.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans know what a real expert&#8217;s credentials look like: relevant degree, years of experience,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226977-when-politics-enter-the-picture-credentials-take-a-back-seat.jpg",90,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}