Posted on 10/17/2013 12:41:22 PM PDT by Red Steel
You know that line liberals love to lob at the Tea Party: you're stupid. Well, obviously that's not the case, nor has it ever been true. Now, a Yale professor has released some new research showing that the so-called "Tea Party radicals" are actually scientifically literate.
Professor Dan M. Kahan of the psychology department at Yale says he was surprised to discover a positive correlation between science comprehension and members of the Tea Party:
"Identifying with the Tea Party correlates positively (r = 0.05, p = 0.05) with scores on the science comprehension measure."
"I've got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I'd be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension."
"But then again, I don't know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party. All my impressions come from watching cable tv -- & I don't watch Fox News very often -- and reading the "paper" (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused internet sites like Huffington Post & Politico)."
"I'm a little embarrassed, but mainly I'm just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view."
"Of course, I still subscribe to my various political and moral assessments--all very negative-- of what I understand the "Tea Party movement" to stand for. I just no longer assume that the people who happen to hold those values are less likely than people who share my political outlooks to have acquired the sorts of knowledge and dispositions that a decent science comprehension scale measures."
Well, perhaps some of those previous opinions could've been dispelled earlier when the New York Times wrote in 2010 that Tea Partiers are more educated - and financially better off - than the rest of the public.
Since one of your assessments was shown to be incorrect, it should be important to you to test ALL of them. When you are finished, you will be a conservative and start attending Tea Party functions.
Are you afraid?
A rare thing, indeed.
What does a psychology professor know about science? Let’s put HIM to the test.
Yalie “researcher” once again neglects to do a thingie called a “literature search” and announces the discovery of a square wheel.
Worse yet, the offender is a psychologist - a member of a “soft” science. In his case, mostly “soft” and pitifully little science.
Corrupt lil’ academented bachelor’s child didn’t even search the lead journal of psychology, the New Yuk Slimes archives.
“the Earths core is millions of degrees”
Earth core or sun core - “What difference does it make?”
Sorry, just exercising my inner HillaBesast.
So next, let’s check the Democrat Party and compare.
Talk about living in a cocoon. No wonder the left is so easily led around by the nose.
Liberals dont yet undestand the biological relationship between a fetus and a human.
Or if we want to look into History for Conservatives being ahead of the curve, look at what Documentaries we have shared with each other over the years.
How much about your own country do you know now that you didn't 5 years ago?
He followed the science to it’s logical conclusion, that being that liberalism is mentally disordered.
Not just documentaries either. History based dramas like Courage New Hampshire that inspire us to go looking for more facts.
While the Pine Tree riot wasn’t specifically mentioned in the show I was inspired to go looking for info on British practices of restricting colonial natural resource usage.
http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/02/the-pine-tree-riot/
It’s amazing what we know about history as well.
Algore is the Cyrus Teed of our time.
I wish they would search for the absolute truth but unfortunately they don’t believe there is such a thing so they wander around aimlessly.
Why do you think Warren Buffet is against the Keystone Pipeline?
This is the same damn game Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan Played in the 1890s!
What real scientists do.
Thanks Red Steel.
Yep, and it’s comforting to know that a few still exist.
Good analogy!
I bet he claimed to have a consensus too
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