{"id":4822,"date":"2011-09-09T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-09-09T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T14:58:40","slug":"the-tea-party-and-the-dunning-kruger-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/the-tea-party-and-the-dunning-kruger-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tea Party and The Dunning-Kruger Effect."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Satterfield further analyzes the recent Yale survey which shows a) if you remove Teabaggers form the Republican Party you get a more sensible group of Republicans and b) if you look just at the teabaggers you get, well, something rather scary.<\/p>\n<p>Read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wildwildscience\/2011\/09\/08\/science-the-tea-party-and-the-dunning-kruger-effect\/\">here<\/a>. The bottom line is this:  When asked, in reference to evaluating relevant policy and science and stuff, if you &#8220;need any more information&#8221; to make an informed choice, the teabaggers say &#8220;no&#8221; in the majority, while other groups, even Republicans, are much more likely to desire to know more.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my story and I&#8217;m sticking to it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Satterfield further analyzes the recent Yale survey which shows a) if you remove Teabaggers form the Republican Party you get a more sensible group of Republicans and b) if you look just at the teabaggers you get, well, something rather scary. Read about it here. The bottom line is this: When asked, in reference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/the-tea-party-and-the-dunning-kruger-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Tea Party and The Dunning-Kruger Effect.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[411,905,326],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1fM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}