Yale Study: Tea Party members more scientifically literate than liberals | Surprised?
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Left-wing researcher is shocked, SHOCKED by evidence that goes against his liberal prejudices.

Yale Professor's Surprising Discovery: Tea Party Supporters More Scientifically Literate
Kyle Becker | On 16, Oct 2013
Yale Law professor Dan M. Kahan was conducting an analysis of the scientific comprehension of various political groups when he ran into a shocking discovery: tea party supporters are slightly more scientifically literate than the non-tea party population.
When composing histograms of the scientific inference abilities of liberals and conservatives, he discovered that those who described themselves as tea party supporters came out pretty well, based on National Science Foundation standards of evaluation.
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I expect the Yale group was quite surprised.
Tea Partiers question almost everything and that requires knowledge and thought.
However, your question is inaccurate. I am aware that you don't care. So it's fine.
However the study didn't compare them to liberals but non tea party members as a whole. So Tea Party members are more scientifically knowledgeable than non tea party members.
From your link: In other words, tea party members appear to be slightly, but solidly more scientifically literate than non-tea party members.
In fact, tea party members tend to be more scientifically literate than other self-described conservatives, who have slightly negative scores, overall.
I accept that.
Liberals are 99.99% like the second case he described, the slicker who knows diddly.