Republicans more skeptical of astrology than Democrats

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By Razib Khan
Aug 27, 2011 7:30 AMNov 19, 2019 8:16 PM

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Someone on twitter was curious about GOP attitudes toward astrology. I left the party breakdown out of the previous post because ideology accounts for most party differences. In other words, conservatives are more skeptical of astrology than liberals, and Republicans more than Democrats, but the second result just seems to emerge from the Republican's greater conservatism.

Why are independents so gullible? It probably has to do with their lower average intelligence (this goes for moderates too). So I simply limited the sample to those with at least bachelor's degrees to control for intelligence:

Astrology very scientificAstrology somewhat scientificAstrology not scientific

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