Posted on 10/18/2013 11:21:38 AM PDT by neverdem
Yale Law professor Dan M. Kahan was conducting an analysis of the scientific comprehension of various political groups when he ran into a shocking discovery: tea party supporters are slightly more scientifically literate than the non-tea party population.
When composing histograms of the scientific inference abilities of liberals and conservatives, he discovered that those who described themselves as tea party supporters came out pretty well, based on National Science Foundation standards of evaluation:
The shift to the right on the gray columns represents a positive correlation between tea party members and generally higher scientific test scores. The r=0.05 is not a drastically higher score, but the findings are statistically significant to p=.05. In other words, tea party members appear to be slightly, but solidly more scientifically literate than non-tea party members.
In fact, tea party members tend to be more scientifically literate than other self-described conservatives, who have slightly negative scores, overall. These findings should give both liberal and GOP establishment types pause over their caricatures of tea party constituents.
Remarkable was the professor’s reaction on the Yale Law “Cultural Cognition Project” website:
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...
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I saw this yesterday. Only surprised at how stupid the “scientist” is. “I found facts but I disregard what I found.”
I’d like to know how he conducted his research.
We can do basic math, and know how to live within a budget.
Compared to your average lib, that’s like calculus to a caveman.
Although he just proved to himself his information source don't match reality, I doubt he changes his sources, or doubts them on any other topic.
2 plus 2 does not equal 5 or 3 and liberals seem to have a harder time understanding that.
As individuals, their "comprehension" of the history of civilization and the ideas of liberty embodied in their Declaration of Independence and incorporated into their Constitution for a "People's" limited government makes them "constitutionally literate" as well.
Smarter Than the Average Conservative! Woo-hoo!
From yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3080225/posts
Uh....libs put your pencils down.the test was over three days ago.
LOL! Spot on!
Libs / GOPe RINOs = Medieval Italian poetry majors, street agitators, potheads, welfare queens, politicians, Obamacare navigators, domestic terrorists
Borrowing to pay debt is not the way to avoid a default. It is how you make the eventual default worse.
Get a leftist fanatic to explain the above.
It’s not a shock to me. A lot of people who made their way in life without relying on the government for help usually aren’t stupid.
Military, technicians— don’t get their news from Jon Stewart.
It’s like getting a “payday loan” to pay your last “payday loan.” Over and over and over.
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