[asa] American political conservatism impedes the understanding of science

On PT it is reported that

Science magazine has just published a graph of data taken from a
general social survey of Americans that quantifies what most of us
assume: a well-educated liberal who is not a fundamentalist is much
more likely to accept evolution than a conservative fundamentalist
with only a high school education. You can see the trend fairly
clearly: here we see the percent believing in evolution vs.
fundamentalism, amount of education, and self-reported political
views.

For image see http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/01/belief_in_evo.jpg
or for a larger picture:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/01/belief_in_evo_lg.php

The percentage of respondents believing in human evolution is plotted
simultaneously against political view (conservative, moderate,
liberal), education (high school or less, some college, graduate
school), and respondent's religious denomination (fundamentalist or
not). Belief in evolution rises along with political liberalism,
independently of control variables.

Continue reading "American political conservatism impedes the
understanding of science" (on Pharyngula)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/01/american_political_conservatis.php)

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Received on Fri Jan 12 00:26:14 2007