[Beave Meister]

The average Teaparty member is way smarter than the average liberal professor

[jimfree]

BTTT.

[albie]

And at least 1/2 of the Tea Party members I’ve met are war vets. From WW11 to Iraq.

They fought and put their lives on the line so that Professor Doucebag Weenie could have a cushy college gig and be a stupid ass day in and day but be confused with someone who’s intelligent.

[Paladin2]

This guy is apparently paid to study gnats' differences in correlations of political outlooks with whatever other personal characteristics he is interested in.

I suggest that he study the science comprehension of EBT users, Medicaid users, people who vote for DWS, etc.

[oh8eleven]

Yale professor Dan Kahan ... "I don’t know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party."

[frogjerk]

I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.

Good for him. A little humility goes a long way.

[Hardraade]

Very few of these people would even make it to Mensa.

I know very few who wouldn’t.

[COBOL2Java]

Kind of reminds me of the liberal from New York City, as I recall, who couldn't understand how Ronald Reagan could have been elected, since no one he knew voted for him.

(may have been a different Republican victory)

[central_va]

Amazes me how susceptible to propaganda the presumptive “knowledge” class has become. They have no intellectual curiosity what so ever, at least towards politics. They are like children. The MSM manipulates and distorts, and academia laps it up..

[KosmicKitty]

But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party.

Sounds like that woman who didn't know anyone who voted for Nixon.

Guess the dude's a bit to insulated to make a fair judgement of reality.

[cripplecreek]

This tea partier has had the science channel on all morning. This morning I watched a show about the science behind the engineering of the Eiffel Tower. Last night it was shows about space physics and gravity.

That sort of thing interests me.

[MrB]

I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension.

That's because you've convinced yourself, ie, drank the koolaid, that liberals are inherently smarter because... because they're liberals.

[stormhill]

Not to worry, professor; only a matter of days before your colleagues apply Global Warming statistical methodology to prove Tea Partiers are dumber than a bag of hammers.

[i_robot73]

I doubt his reading habits will change after noting the source of his ‘confusion’ (NY Times, Politico, Huffington...non-Fox). Call me impressed when we starting thinking about 2nd A, ‘global warming’, ‘the poor’, etc. objectively.

[jboot]

I find the notion that "religious people/conservatives/Tea Partiers must be ignorant fools" to be offensive on its face.

I may think that progs are evil, but I'd never accuse them of being ignorant fools. Their serfs in the Free Sh*t Army are as ignorant as the day is long, but the progs themselves are not.

[buffaloguy]

Tea Partier here who designs and builds bids his own telescopes. How about you, professor?

[jughandle]

Welcome to the real world, professor. Your little social theories may sound wonderful but step outside of the conference room once in a while.

[SharpRightTurn]

“But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party.”

No, nitwit, because you spend all your time with other extreme leftist profs who are as intellectually close-minded as you are.

There is -0- diversity of thought in universities, as this one anecdote demonstrates.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

In the grand scheme of things, the natural sciences are not very important. Regardless, I'm happy to hear that Tea Partiers beat liberals in any category of knowledge.

What is important, in the grand scheme of things, is religion and virtue, and I can guarantee you that Tea Partiers are far ahead of the Marxists and libertines, in this category.

[NativeSon]

Every lefty that I have ever met and spoken with always believes that he/she is smarter, better, more superior than others. -by others I mean different from those holding the beliefs

They are racist, sexist, classist etc. and enjoy hanging around the weak willed so they can prattle on about how lucky everyone is that he/she is there to guide them.

[Irenic]

“All my impressions come from watching cable tv”
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That should be an indictment on cable news.