Liberal Programs Deserve Blame for Income Inequality

[BrainGlutton]

@Little_Nemo

I’m guessing you didn’t actually read the entire article.

The first part of it is a quoted section from an article by Daniel Klein. Klein describes how he took the results of a poll that asked people what their political leanings were and what their opinions were on various economic issues. He then, on his own, decided that some economic opinions were wrong. He then went through and counted how many “wrong” answers each ideological group had. Liberals disagreed with Klein the most so, according to him, that meant they were giving the most “wrong” answers.
The rest of the article was written by Stephen Bainbridge. Bainbridge describes himself as “right of center” and says he’d like to think that there is proof that conservatives are smarter than liberals. But he points out how Klein’s method is too flawed to be used to form any conclusion.

Suppose one were to try this seriously:

1. Collect a group of 100 or so test subjects.

2. Adminster to each subject some acceptably standard test of political views. Perhaps the Political Compass test. Does anyone have another to suggest? )

3. Administer to each subject a test of general, non-controversial economic knowledge.

4. Cross-correlate.

What would the results be, I wonder?

And, what would be the content of that test of non-controversial economic knowledge?