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[h=1]Eureka! Tea partiers know science[/h]
Findings meet the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor says. | AP Photo
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.
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However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didnt, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said.
(Also on POLITICO: Poll: GOP bitter over tea party)
Kahan wrote that not only did the findings surprise him, they embarrassed him.
Ive got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected Id be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension, Kahan wrote.
But then again, I dont know a single person who identifies with the tea party, he continued. All my impressions come from watching cable tv & I dont watch Fox News very often and reading the paper (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused Internet sites like Huffington Post and POLITICO). Im a little embarrassed, but mainly, Im just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.
(Also on POLITICO: Palin hints at tea party primaries)
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 wouldnt 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#ixzz2i2kVDr8p
[h=1]Eureka! Tea partiers know science[/h]
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.
Continue Reading [h=4][/h]
However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didnt, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said.
(Also on POLITICO: Poll: GOP bitter over tea party)
Kahan wrote that not only did the findings surprise him, they embarrassed him.
Ive got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected Id be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension, Kahan wrote.
But then again, I dont know a single person who identifies with the tea party, he continued. All my impressions come from watching cable tv & I dont watch Fox News very often and reading the paper (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused Internet sites like Huffington Post and POLITICO). Im a little embarrassed, but mainly, Im just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.
(Also on POLITICO: Palin hints at tea party primaries)
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 wouldnt 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#ixzz2i2kVDr8p
