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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (240140)	12/18/2013 7:00:03 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541526

You know that line liberals love to lob at the Tea Party: you're stupid. Well, obviously that's not the case just because someone is wealthy and has more education than the average person does not mean they are not stupid... Palin, Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson, Alex Jones, Rick Perry, Donald Trump,... the list is endless...these people are nuts also, the "average joe" teapartier is an old white guy who tend to be wealthier because they are retired... as opposed to younger people just trying to make a living and growing up in harder economic times

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (240140)	12/18/2013 7:11:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541526

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?