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> Personal experience is a pretty terrible way to form political opinions, it leads to stuff like overestimating the rate of crime, the cost of terror etc.

Isn't it the other way around? Few have significant personal experiences with crime or terrorism so it is only when they read about it that they start thinking that it is a big issues.



I'd classify reading something in a newspaper under "personal experience", the news are mostly written in a way to invoke emotional responses.

In contrast to, say, looking at the actual data and crunch the numbers yourself to try and get an educated view

This is obviously not very practical but at least then you could hold your opinions with good conscience




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