I think this study may in fact show that lesser educated people are less susceptible to propaganda, and less likely to be “institutionalized” by society and gro

I think this study may in fact show that lesser educated people are less susceptible to propaganda, and less likely to be “institutionalized” by society and group-think. This reminds me of those studies purporting to denigrate the religious by showing they have lower IQs than non-religious people. Yet, some of the biggest minds (John Von Neumann) had some religious leanings: “ von Neumann, when dying of cancer in the hospital, sought the ministrations of a Catholic priest, Fr. Anselm Strittmatter, O.S.B., to whom he confessed and from whom he received the last sacraments of the Catholic Church. Some explained this as the act of a desperate man who was known to have an unusually great horror of death. On the other hand, that he had some belief is indicated by the fact that he once confided to his mother, “There probably has to be a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn’t.” “ So clearly, studies such as the one in the article are not particularly useful, nor enlightening (at least not for the reasons people might think). Any who base their decisions going forward on the results of this study, rather than on their own balanced examination of the facts, is more likely to be cognitively deficient.