Tea Party Supporters More Scientifically Literate

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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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Yale Professor's Surprising Discovery: Tea Party Supporters More Scientifically Literate | Independent Journal Review
 
rejecting Evolution, the Big Bang Theory, and Contraception isn't scientific literacy.
 
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