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Original article: Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government. Easy-to-read summary of the results: Science Confirms: Politics Wrec

I saw this conundrum at Alexander Pruss's blog and I thought LWers might enjoy discussing it: Consider the following sequence of events:

From Julian Sanchez, a brilliant idea unlikely to be implemented: American politics sometimes seems like a contest to see which group of

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