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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 9:52pmSanction this postReply
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It's hard to understand economics and remain a liberal -- the cognitive dissonance alone must be overwhelming to them.

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 3:34amSanction this postReply
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The dissonance is called 'individualism'...

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Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 10:08amSanction this postReply
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 Here is a link to the entire article, a 23-page pdf.  I downloaded it, saved it, and printed off some pages.
http://econjwatch.org/articles/economic-enlightenment-in-relation-to-college-going-ideology-and-other-variables-a-zogby-survey-of-americans


NASCAR fans score lower (better; counting wrong answers) than non-fans. 
Those who shop at Wal-Mart score significantly better than those who shop never at Wal-Mart.
Catholics score better than Jews -- go figure...  (Must be the liberalism gets in their way.)

Interesting all in all.


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