We find little support in our data for the above hypotheses... As can be seen, the overall difference in knowledge scores in the second round between groups under
treatment and control conditions is not significant. On average, both groups appear to be able to answer approximately four often political knowledge questions correctly. We next consider the possibility that the treatment students did try to learn more about politics but were unable to do sob We find no evidence that they increased their general engagement with politics through
discussion, which could have signalled greater effort at learning. Rather, by the end of the campaign those in control and treatment both appeared to engage in conversation with friends and family somewhere between the Rarely and Sometimes response categories. (11)
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