Zitat von Am_Rande im Beitrag #1

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Mal schauen, ob sich jemand in der Runde findet, der fähig ist, sachlich über die Tea Party zu diskutieren...

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Da das selbst "US-Professoren" [™ dt. Qualitätsmedien] von Eliteuniversitäten vor hohe Anforderungen stellt, dürfte die Wahrscheinlichkeit eher gering anzusetzen sein.

"Yale Professor 'Embarrassed' to Discover Tea Party Members are Scientifically Literate"

Zitat CNS News, 17 Oct 2013
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Now, a Yale professor has released some new research showing that the so-called "Tea Party radicals" are actually scientifically literate.

Professor Dan M. Kahan of the psychology department at Yale says he was surprised to discover a positive correlation between science comprehension and members of the Tea Party:

"Identifying with the Tea Party correlates positively (r = 0.05, p = 0.05) with scores on the science comprehension measure."

"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."
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Das passiert halt, wenn sich der Kontakt mit dem Gegenstand des Interesses auf die Vermittlung durch Qualitätsmedien beschränkt:
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"But then again, I don't know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party. 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 & Politico)."
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Beruhigend zu sehen, daß sich auch Yale-Professoren durch unerwartete Forschungsergebnisse nicht in ihrer Aufrichtiigkeit irre machen lasen:
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"Of course, I still subscribe to my various political and moral assessments--all very negative-- of what I understand the "Tea Party movement" to stand for. I just no longer assume that the people who happen to hold those values are less likely than people who share my political outlooks to have acquired the sorts of knowledge and dispositions that a decent science comprehension scale measures."
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"Laßt uns schweigen, Freunde, / senkt das Banner. / Der Professor irrt. / Doch formulieren kann er." (frei nach R. Gernhardt) Übersetzung aus dem Akademischen: Wir sind zwar ahnungslos, aber die sind trotzdem die Bösen.