Is this particularly meaningful? It seems to me that a critical assumption underpinning this study having any meaning is that someone’s ability to answer consen

Is this particularly meaningful? It seems to me that a critical assumption underpinning this study having any meaning is that someone’s ability to answer consensus questions correctly is correlated to their ability to answer non-consensus questions correctly. This does not necessarily follow - a large number of the ideas which are now “objective truths” were at one point non-consensus fringe views (e.g. germ theory, non-heliocentrism, lead paint being bad, climate change, etc.), suggesting that link doesn’t exist all that strongly, in my opinion.