One that might be of interest to those who seem compelled to "prove" how much smarter they are than others. As a quote from the article and the research it reports on says:
A recent study by Yale's Dan M. Kahan and colleagues might be thought to call these truisms of democratic political culture into question. According to the finding, the better you are at reasoning numerically, the more likely you are to let your political bias skew your quantitative reasoning. Put another way, the brainier you are, the better you can twist facts to your own pre-existing convictions. And that's what you will tend to do. <http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/01/242138044/the-smarter-you-are-\ the-stupider-you-are?ft=1&f=> <http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/01/242138044/the-smarter-you-are-\ the-stupider-you-are?ft=1&f= > http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/01/242138044/the-smarter-you-are-t\ he-stupider-you-are?ft=1&f= <http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/01/242138044/the-smarter-you-are-\ the-stupider-you-are?ft=1&f=>
