Re: [tips] If You Have Republican Students, Teach Them The Difference between Science and Ideology

2018-02-07 Thread Carol DeVolder
Also, Mike, I'll see your "submit" and raise you a "resist." On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Jim Clark wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Just higher education is too coarse a metric. Would be nice to see > breakdown by major or degree. > > > > Also, highly educated Republican may be an increasingly rare c

Re: [tips] If You Have Republican Students, Teach Them The Difference between Science and Ideology

2018-02-07 Thread Carol DeVolder
Sadly, I had a student in my office today who wanted to talk about becoming an environmental activist. I told him he was better served by our biology department than our psychology department (simply because we don't have the resources to offer the courses that might help him, such as animal behavi

RE: [tips] If You Have Republican Students, Teach Them The Difference between Science and Ideology

2018-02-07 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Just higher education is too coarse a metric. Would be nice to see breakdown by major or degree. Also, highly educated Republican may be an increasingly rare creature? So perhaps something of an anomaly. Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor of Psychology University of Winnipeg 204-786-9757

[tips] If You Have Republican Students, Teach Them The Difference between Science and Ideology

2018-02-07 Thread Michael Palij
Because it appears that as Republicans get more education, the less they rely upon science on issues like climate change and more on what political elites tell them to believe. Democrats learn not to trust political elites and rely more on scientific evidence -- there's a dissertation in there --