Cenk Uygur
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Politics Wrecks Your Brain | Fascinating Study
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September 6, 2013
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7:27Now Playing"According to a new psychology paper, our political passions can even undermine our very basic reasoning skills. More specifically, the study finds that people who are otherwise very good at math may totally flunk a problem that they would otherwise probably be able to solve, simply because giving the right answer goes against their political beliefs.
The study, by Yale law professor Dan Kahan and his colleagues, has an ingenious design. At the outset, 1,111 study participants were asked about their political views and also asked a series of questions designed to gauge their "numeracy," that is, their mathematical reasoning ability. Participants were then asked to solve a fairly difficult problem that involved interpreting the results of a (fake) scientific study. But here was the trick..."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur and Desi Doyen (Green News Report) break it down.
Read more here from Chris Mooney / Mother Jones:
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