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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Yale professor's study show Teabaggers have slightly more knowledge of science....
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than other groups. Proving once and for all that the teaparty are MORONS.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html
A bunch of privileged, white, middle class men who are lucky enough to get a good education but too stupid to believe what they learned.
It just goes to show...you can give a Jack Ass an education but you cannot make him think.
http://publicreligion.org/research/2011/09/climate-change-evolution-2012/#.UmQ-o_y3sYE.email
The chart below clearly shows that the Tea party members do not believe in science fact.
<a href=".html" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt=" photo PRRI-EvolutionClimatechange_zps908a0846.jpg"/></a>
rainy
(6,091 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)This study is all over the internet. Teabaggers are crowing. I thought I would address it with another study that points out that baggers may have studied science and remember what they were taught but...they stupidly don't believe science!
brewens
(13,582 posts)what they know to be fact. They know about evolution but will deny it if they think there is some advantage to that. Quite a few in Congress posing to be religious do.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I cannot believe that so few people believe that living things evolve over time. Incredible. But then I look at who did this survey, and I figure that people who are apathetic or opposed to religion would probably choose not to participate in this poll.
I want to ask those people who do not believe in evolution if they believe that there are superbugs. Do we have a problem with drug-resistant bacteria? I use this all the time, and get a lot of stuttering, or that bacteria are not the same as animals. No, they aren't...they go through a life cycle in 20 minutes or so, and we can watch generations in the course of one day instead of years.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)Maybe you agree with the good doctor from Yale and teabaggers are smarter than the rest of us.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)Teabaggers are calling themselves scientifically intelligent because of the study.
The chart is another study showing they don't believe in science.
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Still, Reading, wRiting and aRithmatic don't teach you HOW to think in their world. You are given the right and wrong answers and memorize who wants which answer to move you ahead.
Others whose education is broader based and more challenging learn HOW to think critically and decide for yourself based on evidence at hand and tools available to measure.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)...why so many right-wingers are suspicious of education beyond the "three Rs"...can't expose the "common" folk to "dangerous ideas" like critical thinking, etc.
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Even if it's only superficial and for the reason of tearing it apart.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)Well then somebody has done a good job exposing you to dangerous ideas
If you're an example of a young dem, there is hope, judging by your OPs!
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Appreciate it!
4bucksagallon
(975 posts)Anymore than this one.
http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html
Even though I enjoy posting it to get knee jerk reactions and even some so outraged they got banned for their outbursts, yes my guilty pleasure. Yet still only one study doesn't mean that much.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)might appeal to those who have trouble grasping the complexity of the world."
Might? Lol.
treestar
(82,383 posts)In science. But after years of retirement, they've forgotten a lot about it. And the big danger is they think they know everything about everything else.
I was talking to my uncle and father one evening, and they were arguing that some doctor didn't do the right thing in the uncle's case. I said the doctor has a degree in medicine and experience. They actually insisted that they know their own body and therefore know more than the doctor and should tell him what to do! And they weren't lacking in education. It was just a long time ago. And sciences you can possibly understand without having any wisdom.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)in the upside-down world of the conservative, the lowest score is the best result. If you know something that their belief system denies, then you are a moron.
seattle15
(45 posts)Can we get that professor fired?
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Tea Partiers, after all, are-on average-wealthier and have higher educational attainment (note: this does NOT necessarily mean they are better educated) than the general population.
Keep in mind, though, the "general population" includes a lot of lower-status and less well-off groups that vote Democratic (the very poor, many racial and ethnic minorities) or don't vote at all. The Tea Party doesn't have such "undesirables".
The take-away is that a group that largely consists of middle-class white Americans is going to skew a bit higher on basic science scores than the general population. When you get beyond the "average" or "somewhat above average" to the "significantly above average", however, liberals-who correlate highly with high or very high educational attainment, ie post-graduate degrees-significantly outnumber conservatives.
A solid majority of voters with post-graduate degrees voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
petronius
(26,602 posts)but one bit that struck me as particularly intriguing - and a valuable warning - was this:
Moreover, because others who share their values very sensibly rely on them when trying to keep up with whats known to science, these high science-comprehending tea-party members -- just like high science-comprehending "Democrats" and "Republicans'" and "libertarians" and "socialists" et al.-- will play a principal role in transmitting the reason-effacing pathogens that pervade our polluted science communication environment.
http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/10/19/congratulations-tea-party-members-you-are-just-as-vulnerable.html