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The Water Line's avatar

Not central to your argument, but that summary of Kahan’s research isn’t correct. He found that on politicized topics, numerate people performed at the same level as the less numerate ones. They didn’t perform worse.

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Mike Hind's avatar

Love this. It’s precisely what my newsletter is about.

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

I take that as quite a compliment!

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Mike Hind's avatar

I’ll link it next time. Every little helps the cause I call radical uncertainty.

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