Posted on 01/31/2020 8:19:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Don Lemon is about to get triggered. According to the 2018 General Social Survey (GSS), Trump supporters scored higher on verbal ability tests and science knowledge. As Jim Lindgren at Reason notes, the GSS "is usually regarded as the leading omnibus academic survey in the US; it usually achieves response rates about 10 to 20 times higher than the typical public opinion poll."
On the verbal ability test (WORDSUM), not surprisingly the median number of vocabulary questions correct was the same for both Clinton and Trump supporters: 6 out of 10 words correct. The mean verbal ability score for Trump supporters was 6.15 words correct, while the mean verbal ability score for Clinton supporters was 5.69 correct, a difference of nearly a half a question on a 10-question test. This moderate difference is statistically significant at p<.0005.
Further, Trump supporters score significantly higher on verbal ability (6.15 correct) than the rest of the public combined (5.70 correct), whereas Clinton supporters score significantly lower on verbal ability (5.69 correct) than the rest of the public combined (5.98 correct).
This is actually not a surprising conclusion. Conservative Republicans have consistently scored significantly higher than the rest of the public combined on the 22 General Social Surveys using the verbal ability scale since 1974.
Trump supporters also have greater science knowledge than voters who supported Clinton in 2016. According to the survey, "on six questions Trump supporters offer the correct answer significantly more often than Clinton supporters."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Indeed, less than half of 2016 Clinton supporters (49.6%) are able to answer correctly both of two related questions: whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth (EARTHSUN) and whether that takes a day, a month, or a year (SOLARREV). Remember these two questions are multiple choice! You would have a 50-50 chance of guessing correctly on the first part: whether the earth goes around the sun or vice versa. Sadly, the general public didn't do hugely better than Clinton supporters, with only 57.1% (compared to 49.6%) knowing that the earth goes around the sun and that it takes a year to do so.
Idiocracy is not repulsive, or a parody, if you are a moron.
That can't be true. It has to be impossible for anyone to not know that. Are the questions asked weirdly or what??
I sent one back pointing out that felons support Dems by an enormous margin.
If youre stupid, the world is scary.
I’ve seen numerous instances where dems mock Trump supporters by affecting a phony “Southern Accent” while spouting stupid stuff. Could you imagine what hell would be unleashed if a republican affected a “black accent” to mock democrats, or a Mexican accent or a lisping gay accent while spouting stupid comments?
Wheres that collage of mugshots with people wearing 0bama shirts?
I’m going to have to ask my sister this question she is quite smart, has two master’s degrees in environmental science. Yet she is a liberal Democrat oh, is die hard as they come. We don’t talk politics. I can’t change her mind and she can’t change mine. But that’s okay I’m not going to let something is superficial oh, really, get in the way of my blood tie with my sibling. I love her.
Yes, and if the powers-that-be have their way oh, those felons will be able to vote!
That's because we value education and critical thinking skills vs. the herd mentality the Democrats espouse.
The problem with what you suggest is the following: If the leftists believe you they will set fire to almost everything to raise the CO2 levels. We cannot win with these morons, they all need to be in a hospital somewhere.
“Are the questions asked weirdly or what??”
Well, they are in English, which hampers 1/3 of Democrats.
(I’m not a native English speaker, BTW. But damned if I’d spend a lot of time (and work) in the USA and not speak the language.)
Stupid people have no idea just how stupid they are.
“Ive seen numerous instances where dems mock Trump supporters by affecting a phony Southern Accent while spouting stupid stuff.”
This always stuck me as odd.
In Israel, we mock the American Yankee/NYC accent in Hebrew, but the “Southron” American accent in Hebrew is lovely, almost melodic.
When two of your preferred groups of identity politics which have lower rates of school achievement or attendance, then the average informational intelligence is going to be lower.
My cat Doofus is smarter than any Klintoon supporter
We know lots of stuff.
We know that a homosexual male has about a twenty year shorter life expectancy than a heterosexual male.
Good luck, Donnie boy.
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