It turns out that both liberals and conservatives let political bias affect their calculations. The better that participants in a recent study were at math, the more likely they were to let their political beliefs skew their mathematical reasoning.
by Dan Kahan at Yale, even the brightest among us can get a math problem wrong if the right answer goes against our politics.- and it appears to be unconscious.
Think that being a math whiz can protect you from such mistakes? Think again. The better that the study participants were at math, theIn the study, more than 1000 participants with predetermined political views had their mathematical reasoning ability tested. Then they were asked to solve a challenging math problem that interpreted the results of a scientific study.
Some participants were told that the data determined the effectiveness of a skin rash cream. Other subjects were told that the data described the effectiveness of"a law banning private citizens from carrying concealed handguns in public." The research showed that participants who were good at math were more likely to get the skin rash cream problem right. That part was predictable. gun ban,: "subjects’ responses became politically polarized—and even less accurate—when the same data were presented as results from the study of a gun-control ban."
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