Eureka! Tea partiers know science

[Roger Bacon]

Eureka! Tea partiers know science



 By TAL KOPAN | 10/17/13 1:53 PM EDT Updated: 10/17/13 3:42 PM EDT

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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html#ixzz2i6bP7w3F

[dario73]

I heard this on the radio last night.

The liberals on this board love studies like this, why didn't any of them post this? I am shocked.