Interesting economic study from Zogby/WSJ

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Results are not at all surprising, liberals in general don't have economics backgrounds. They tend to lean towards teaching or law type degrees as opposed to business/econ/engineering type degrees.
 
Weird survey is weird.
If they say it's not generally true.....then why wouldn't they accept "somewhat disagree"
 
Because an opinion can not be wrong by definition. Ill informed maybe.

However, the lack of opinion often shows lack of knowledge on the subject.

They used the same types of question set up for intelligence/counter-intelligence checks at places like the DIA.
 
If they can show a case where that idea is actually "correct"....as the study even says is possible...then how would "somewhat disagree" even be considered wrong?

That seems extremely odd to me. The error on that question may be beyond what they're including.

If someone said "strongly disagree" I think yes...that would show that they don't understand the overall general application of the theory.
 
they are saying it IS generally true.

they are also saying that the occurrences in which it is true > occurrences in which it isn't true
 
Repost. Read about this last week. My take is that they are allowing their strong feelings about government entitlement spending to get in the way of their logic. Like minimum wage laws for instance. Sure it decreases employment but it is a necessary evil.

I do however have a problem with question #5. There have been instances where American companies have exploited third world workers in sweat shops.
 
Right, which would put "somewhat disagree" as wrong into question.

If there are situations where your generalization isn't true. Counting an answer that includes "there are situations where the generalization isn't true so I somewhat disagree" as wrong seems highly suspect.
 
Okay, that's a good point if the question is worded ambiguously.

It shouldn't be too much of a problem though assuming that both conservatives and liberals are given the same test and the results are recorded in the same fashion.
 
Why not?
Since the answers don't reflect what they're presupposing at the end...it's a poor question. Doesn't matter if it's given to the same people.

I find it odd they included somewhat even though what they're discussing they know isn't 100% true.
 
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