Liberals are much more likely to acknowledge after the fact that their belief was wrong and work to fix it, a la Obamacare website spectactular failure, while conservatives are much more likely to deny deny deny, a la Iraq war.
Kahan's response to this was just to say that it would be nice if we could somehow test an assertion like this for its validity. And lo - indeed, we can, and indeed we have! And it turns out, according to Kahan at least, that the evidence shows that Krugman is in fact wrong to believe that liberals somehow have the better form of "motivated cognition."
I wouldn't take it too personally or seek to spin it one way or the other. Jeff just wants to mock Krugman. You just want to defend your tribe. I think the better approach is to think about the way one assesses new evidence that may count against or support our established political positions. We know that Jeff isn't very good at doing that, nor is he very good at recognizing that he isn't very good at it, and the OP and his comments here are more telling than he realizes. As for you - I suppose I don't yet know, but I'm not optimistic, given your comments here.
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Date: 2014-04-18 11:19 pm (UTC)Kahan's response to this was just to say that it would be nice if we could somehow test an assertion like this for its validity. And lo - indeed, we can, and indeed we have! And it turns out, according to Kahan at least, that the evidence shows that Krugman is in fact wrong to believe that liberals somehow have the better form of "motivated cognition."
I wouldn't take it too personally or seek to spin it one way or the other. Jeff just wants to mock Krugman. You just want to defend your tribe. I think the better approach is to think about the way one assesses new evidence that may count against or support our established political positions. We know that Jeff isn't very good at doing that, nor is he very good at recognizing that he isn't very good at it, and the OP and his comments here are more telling than he realizes. As for you - I suppose I don't yet know, but I'm not optimistic, given your comments here.