HOW COULD THAT BE?

How could it be that the more educated Democrats are, the more likely they are to believe the science on manmade climate change, yet when Republicans have more education, they are more likely to be skeptics? That is the conundrum put forward by a new Gallup poll released Thursday that showed a whopping 74% of college-educatied Republicans saying they believe global warming is “generally exaggerated.”

By contrast, only 15% of college-educated Democrats said the same. For Republicans with a high school education or less, 57% believe climate change is exaggerated, while only 27% of high school-educated or less Democrats said the same.

The answer is obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together, but first consider this. The headline to the linked column reads "The More Education Republicans Have, the More Likely They Are to Be Climate Change Skeptics" while the hyperlink contains the following: "the-more-education-republicans-have-the-more-likely-they-are-to-deny-climate-change" [Italics are mine]. So ... if you're skeptical, you're a denier?

Now on to the obvious answer. Who, Democrats or Republicans, are more likely to major in the hard sciences? Who, Democrats or Republicans, are more likely to major in the liberal arts?

Any more dumb questions?