make that eight million one steps

Nov 09, 2011 23:11


About a year and a half ago, I moaned about how I couldn’t easily see the flaws in the studies underlying a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece titled “Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics.”

That article’s author has since conducted more surveys on the topic, and he hasn’t been able to repeat his earlier ( Read more... )

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rowyn November 10 2011, 16:09:10 UTC
And here I thought they were going to try to re-word their original questions to make them sound less ideological. Or to admit that economics has fewer provably right answers than they think.

... bizarrely, I didn't feel like any of the new questions challenged my beliefs either. I mean, really? A dollar means more to a poor person than rich one is a belief-challenging question? O.o

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