Survey Says??

Yeah, another survey-slash-poll again. As a general rule I don’t put any stock in them. I just don’t subscribe to the idea that Joe Q. or Suzy Y. will be all that honest talking to a stranger. Anyway, several weeks ago, a liberal friend of mine posted a survey on his BaceFook wall about how conservatives (who he claims are dumber than a box of rocks) are more stupid because they don’t believe in science.

Of course, he linked to Think Progress (Warning: you may end up puking your morning coffee). The “report” came from the American Sociological Review, which in my modest opinion, having been exposed to it while in college, is already skewed to the left side of the political spectrum. One thing he and I tend to agree on is Pew Research. So I think he is squirming a bit due to the latest survey.

On eight of 13 questions about politics, Republicans outscored Democrats by an average of 18 percentage points, according to a new Pew survey titled “Partisan Differences in Knowledge.”

The biggest gap? Over the question of which party wants to reduce the size of the federal government. That was a difference of over 30 points in favor of Republicans. The only question where Democrats had an edge over the Republicans was over which party wanted to reduce defense spending. Shocking, I know.

Like I said, I don’t put much faith in polls and surveys. I do take exception to being called “dumber than a box of rocks”. At least I go outside of Think Progress for information.

And because some of you will invariably click on the Think Progress link, here:

The things I post for y’all…