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Motivated Numeracy and the Enlightenment

8th September 2013

Bryan Caplan points out some inconvenient truth.

 Kevin Drum and Chris Mooney have already posted excellent summaries of this neat study of motivated numeracy.  You should read them.  But if you prefer the digest version: Even unusually numerate people take off their thinking caps when the numbers are ideologically inconvenient.

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