Jophiel wrote:
You posted saying that: "Like say, if the really really smart people are conservative, with a larger group of only 'slightly above average' people being liberal, and a slightly higher percentage of dumb people being conservative? That is almost certainly the case." I quoted this statement and challenged it, citing studies showing that many liberals were well over "slightly above average".
And I didn't respond to that post.
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I never quoted your precious "scientific fields" comment -- I quoted exactly what I originally wanted to reply to.
And I didn't respond to that post.
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Then Catwho said something about softer sciences tending conservative and I responded to that statment with another quote linking to a study showing that soft science disciplines were liberal/Democrat dominated and added a "by the way", posting the Pew graphic to follow up on my earlier post.
Yes. And it was this part to which I disagreed. Great to see you noodled out what I was talking about.
Cat was specifically responding to my statement about science and engineering fields leaning conservative and agreeing with it. You presented the Pew study data to refute that. I then showed how the Pew study didn't actually refute the original statement that I made which started the whole thing.
It's nice that you want to argue against a different statement and all, but the one which started us down this path wasn't that first part of my earlier post. Get it?
