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Tea Partiers smarter, when it comes to Science

hypocritexposer

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Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on his blog this week that he analyzed the responses of a set 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.


“I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension,” Kahan wrote.

“But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party,” he continued. “All my impressions come from watching cable tv — & I don’t watch Fox News very often — and reading the ‘paper’ (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused internet sites like Huffington Post & Politico). I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html#ixzz2i0TAN32U
 

iwannabeacowboy

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The irony here is just too much. :D

Wonder why the study was performed? Lot of time and money spent just for giggles. Yet, since it doesn't jive with his purpose he "cautions" against the use of using information obtained in a study.

While Kahan cautioned against thinking the results can be used to explain deep ideological fights over climate change and other politically relevant science, and he said the results wouldn’t change his negative views of the tea party, he did say he will no longer make assumptions about the level of knowledge on his opponents’ side.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html#ixzz2i1F8W5rj


However, he admits:
The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html#ixzz2i1GS1njN

So, he is trying to bash a group of people for something he is guilty of- not wanting to accept statistical evidence. I think I've seen this somewhere before...

You can't make this stuff up!
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Steve

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and he said the results wouldn’t change his negative views of the tea party, he did say he will no longer make assumptions about the level of knowledge on his opponents’ side.

so in laymens' terms he is just as dumb and ignorant as he was before he looked at the facts... :shock:
 

hypocritexposer

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Steve said:
and he said the results wouldn’t change his negative views of the tea party, he did say he will no longer make assumptions about the level of knowledge on his opponents’ side.

so in laymens' terms he is just as dumb and ignorant as he was before he looked at the facts... :shock:

if he became less tolerant/bigoted, the Democrats might not give him as much money for his "studies"

He reminds me of climate "scientists"
 
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