Re:Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs
by ZeroGravitas on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:01AM
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I have the feeling the person you replied to knows that, hence the weird phrasing of "on the downward trend".
Climate denial and related arguments seem to involve a lot of people who know they are wrong but have chosen a side.
I'm reminded of the research that showed climate denial increased with science education. Dumb Republicans don't have enough science education to know what the right and wrong answers to specific questions are. Educated Republicans (as you find here at HN) know what the right answer is, but also know what the accepted answer in their tribe is, probably even have a little misleading factoid at the ready to deploy.
Climate denial and related arguments seem to involve a lot of people who know they are wrong but have chosen a side.
I'm reminded of the research that showed climate denial increased with science education. Dumb Republicans don't have enough science education to know what the right and wrong answers to specific questions are. Educated Republicans (as you find here at HN) know what the right answer is, but also know what the accepted answer in their tribe is, probably even have a little misleading factoid at the ready to deploy.
An article on the research:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/education-plus-ideol...