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Conservative Discontent with Science is not Attributable to the Uneducated but to Rising Distrust among Educated Conservatives

A new study in the American Sociological Review confirms the hypothesis that conservatives in the U.S. exhibit increasing levels of distrust of science. What is more surprising is that the logistic regression analysis demonstrates that educated conservatives are becoming less confident … Continue reading

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The Never Ending Nature vs. Nurture Debate

The nature vs. nurture debate continues… Abstract “Preferences are fundamental building blocks in all models of economic and political behavior. We study a new sample of comprehensively genotyped subjects with data on economic and political preferences and educational attainment. We … Continue reading

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