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Academic Tests Prove Trump Supporters Are Smarter Than Clinton Supporters
PJ Media ^ | 01/31/2020 | Matt Margolis

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."


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KEYWORDS: academictests; clintonsupporters; gss; trumpsupporters
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1 posted on 01/31/2020 8:19:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
But here's where things get interesting.

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.

2 posted on 01/31/2020 8:20:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind
This has been my conviction for some years, now. The Democrat/Socialist appeal has always been that the Stupid Half of the Bell Curve will be attracted to a political theory that will make everyone equal, at gun point.

Idiocracy is not repulsive, or a parody, if you are a moron.

3 posted on 01/31/2020 8:26:55 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Which explains why they are so worried about climate change. Maybe if we told them that CO2 is the only thing that keeps the sun from crashing to earth they will leave us alone 🤪
4 posted on 01/31/2020 8:30:52 AM PST by McGavin999 (Queen Fancy Nancy Of North Poopistan)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

That can't be true. It has to be impossible for anyone to not know that. Are the questions asked weirdly or what??

5 posted on 01/31/2020 8:32:45 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: SeekAndFind
A liberal relative sent an email crowing about the fact that scientists support Dems over GOP by a big margin.

I sent one back pointing out that felons support Dems by an enormous margin.

6 posted on 01/31/2020 8:34:29 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: jonascord

If you’re stupid, the world is scary.


7 posted on 01/31/2020 8:37:52 AM PST by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: SeekAndFind

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?


8 posted on 01/31/2020 8:39:21 AM PST by euram
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Where’s that collage of mugshots with people wearing 0bama shirts?


9 posted on 01/31/2020 8:44:12 AM PST by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


10 posted on 01/31/2020 8:45:49 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Trump 2020!)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Yes, and if the powers-that-be have their way oh, those felons will be able to vote!


11 posted on 01/31/2020 8:46:24 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Trump 2020!)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

That's because we value education and critical thinking skills vs. the herd mentality the Democrats espouse.

12 posted on 01/31/2020 8:49:10 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: McGavin999

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.


13 posted on 01/31/2020 8:50:27 AM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: gloryblaze

“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.)


14 posted on 01/31/2020 8:51:16 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: SeekAndFind

Stupid people have no idea just how stupid they are.


15 posted on 01/31/2020 8:52:35 AM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: euram

“I’ve 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.


16 posted on 01/31/2020 8:54:01 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


17 posted on 01/31/2020 8:54:38 AM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: SeekAndFind

My cat Doofus is smarter than any Klintoon supporter


18 posted on 01/31/2020 8:55:59 AM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


19 posted on 01/31/2020 8:59:25 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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20 posted on 01/31/2020 9:02:06 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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