Thursday, October 17, 2013

Yeah, I Knew That, Conservatives Smarter Than Liberals

Being a conservative means you have to think about your positions and try and persuade while liberals just emotions and scare tactics.
From Before It's News: A finding in a study on the relationship between science literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea party members know more science than non-tea partiers.
Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on his blog this week that he analyzed the responses of more than 2,000 American adults recruited for another study and found that, on average, people who leaned liberal were more science literate than those who leaned conservative.
However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn’t, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said.
Kahan wrote that not only did the findings surprise him, they embarrassed him.
“I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. Keep Reading
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/10/yale-professor-surprised-when-study-reveals-tea-partiers-are-smarter-than-liberals-on-science-2735680.html
Umm, just curious why the "good" professor would find it surprising.  Shouldn't he have had an open mind?  Do you think he has an open mind about conservatives now?
Yeah, I doubt it too.
But to my liberal friends: Hahaha

1 comment:

  1. If you read the study, you'll find that the conservatives performed as expected...low. It was only the subset who self-identified as Tea Party members who surprised the researcher.

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