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One would think that conservatives and liberals with high levels of education would find common ground on scientific issues that involve empirical evidence – climate change, for example.
But one would be wrong for the most part, as we see in THIS ESSAY by author Chris Mooney:
Yale researcher Dan Kahan and his colleagues set out to study the relationship between political views, scientific knowledge or reasoning abilities, and opinions on contested scientific issues like global warming. In their study, more than 1,500 randomly selected Americans were asked about their political worldviews and their opinions about how dangerous global warming ...
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