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.

Kahan wrote that not only did the findings surprise him, they embarrassed him.

“I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension,” Kahan wrote.

“But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the tea party,” he continued. “All my impressions come from watching cable tv — & I don’t 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). I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly, I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24252823)

you really have no idea how many young white men with technical degrees from schools of varying quality identify with the tea party above R

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24252855)

The tea partiers who tell liberals to stay out of are country and off of are medicare while also clamoring for no federal government, and they get all the attention, but there's also a huge number of reddit paulists who also consider themselves TPers - young educated men, who will naturally be the highest scoring on a test for scientific literacy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24254726)

also, this seems cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24888540)

"New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused Internet sites like Huffington Post and POLITICO"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24252864)

reddit neckbearders and "DONT TREDD ON ME" Southern white trash have very little in common socially, politically, or economically, but are dumped in the same basket.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24252876)

"Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them."

"[the] historic curse of the Irish, which is not alcohol, it's not stupidity. But it's ignorance."

"[I am] inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa [because] all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24257828)

Tea Party vs. OWS protestors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24253603)

poor conservatives>poor liberals>tea partiers (who are mostly middle class dipshits)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>educated conservatives>educated liberals

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24257522)

Can you think of a specific liberal grouping that would be more scientifically literate than the whole of liberals?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24257551)

they have to be done here, right?

their signature achievement is one of the most embarrasing debacles in american history.

We land on the moon,

but shitlibs cant even administer a webpage.

and damn, if they aint proud of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24321393)

I was talking to 3 well educated smart female lawyers about the supposed cannibal rats on that ship in the Atlantic. The women were terrified that the rats, surviving only by eating each other, would multiply out of control. I tried to explain concepts such as the conservation of mass to suggest that it would be impossible for there to be more rats after a year of the rats eating nothing but each other. They responded with things like "they breed so fast" and "baby rats need to eat less".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2389899&forum_id=2#24888255)