That alone would prove that this ‘study’ and the people that produced it are completely incompetent.
My wife works at a university. It is amazing how many people profess every liberal belief (so called liberal straight ticket) but when you have a private conversation you find out that they think most of it is nonsense.
Part of the success of liberalism is that for so many fields it has become a prerequisite to profess belief for it.
And that is the other thing this study missed entirely. Many people, especially the more educated, feel they must express liberal ideas in public. Conservatives are more likely to say, “FU, this is what I believe - take it or leave it!” What people openly profess to believe is not so much a measure of intelligence as it is a measure of backbone.
Doublethink in real life. What is even worse is that they have the authority to throw the "liberal straight ticket" into the sewer where it belongs yet tenaciously hold onto it; they don't have to fear loss of funding that much.
My wife works at a university. It is amazing how many people profess every liberal belief (so called liberal straight ticket) but when you have a private conversation you find out that they think most of it is nonsense