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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (240140)	12/18/2013 7:11:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541520

Did you read the study and dig down in to the numbers? "In this dataset, I found that there is a small correlation (r = -0.05, p = 0.03) between the science comprehension measure and a left-right political outlook measure, Conservrepub, which aggregates liberal-conservative ideology and party self-identification. The sign of the correlation indicates that science comprehension decreases as political outlooks move in the rightward direction--i.e., the more "liberal" and "Democrat," the more science comprehending." And as for the teabaggers being "better" at science, we have this "Again, the relationship is trivially small, and can't possibly be contributing in any way to the ferocious conflicts over decision-relevant science that we are experiencing." Plus, he's using self reporting. And who knows how that shakes out? Literate? Perhaps what we ought to say is, they aren't quite as stupid as he thought they were. Did you take a look at the distribution of scores? Yikes. And apparently religion doesn't correlate well with science. Who would have imagined?

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