# Ideology Affects Numeracy Skills (or Honesty)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideology-affects-numeracy-skills-or-honesty/668428>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 9, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideology-affects-numeracy-skills-or-honesty/668428 "2013-09-09T18:43:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideology-affects-numeracy-skills-or-honesty/668428/21 "2013-09-10T13:43:56Z")

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**brazil** wins the thread. 🙂 I’m not entirely sure this is a valid comparison. It seems unlikely that efficacy of a medicine is an issue where interpretation of data is not equally colored by political leanings (at least on the extremes). How many people do you know who think all doctors are quacks and that Big Pharma never designs a medicine to work, and so on?

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideology-affects-numeracy-skills-or-honesty/668428/22 "2013-09-10T14:00:16Z")

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> [@brazil84](#):
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> Of course you need consider the possibility that the researchers subconsciously fudged the results of their experiment to get the outcome they had predicted.
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> 😃

Mind.

Blown.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideology-affects-numeracy-skills-or-honesty/668428/23 "2013-09-10T14:25:13Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> Did anyone see the second half of a post somewhere?

Last I saw it, it put on a hoodie and walked into that suburban neighborhood.

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