He has a compartmentalized mentality. He might be smart in his profession, but he is dumb as rocks when it comes to rational economics, philosophy, and human nature and the requirements for survival.
Still I give him props both for letting the data take him where it goes, and NOT simply burying it by not publishing it.
He also gets extra points in my book for honestly admitting in public that he was wrong.
From the article:
I’ll now be much less surprised, too, if it turns out that someone I meet at, say, the Museum of Science in Boston, or the Chabot Space and Science Museum in Oakland, or the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is part of the 20% (geez— I must know some of them) who would answer “yes” when asked if he or she identifies with the Tea Party. If the person is there, then it will almost certainly be the case that that he or she & I will agree on how cool the stuff is at the museum, even if we don’t agree about many other matters of consequence.
Gee, he is forgetting that if someone in the above mentioned job was actually a Tea party member and confessed it there is a “chilling effect” going on which might cause these people to “stay in the tea party closet” as it is a documented fact that Government has been using it’s vast and unchecked power to harass Tea Party Groups and by extension it’s members using the IRS as a thug....