Proof GOPers Are Best Informed Sector Of Population
The proof was published, remarkably enough, in the NYT...
..That’s a central finding from a survey of 35,000 Americans by Gallup and Franklin Templeton. It finds that both liberals and conservatives suffer from misperceptions about the pandemic — in opposite directions. ..
...Here's the actual question that Gallup and Templeton posed to 35K people:
What are the chances that someone with Covid must be hospitalized?
...Here's the breakdown:
What the NYT wants you to take away from that chart is this: Dems are likely to overestimate the Covid threat, but GOPers are likely to underestimate the Covid threat--thus, there is "some truth" to the notion that GOPers as a group are "certainly ... hostil[e] to facts and evidence." (Note: I rearranged the words slightly and added emphasis.)...Read all.
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