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It would be interesting to see if they could control for level of/exposure to formal education in cognitive ability (plenty of smart uneducated people, and dumb

by bragr 4y ago

It would be interesting to see if they could control for level of/exposure to formal education in cognitive ability (plenty of smart uneducated people, and dumb educated people). I think this would help tease of if this is a feature of cognitive ability, or if cognitive ability is just a proxy to how much civics education you've likely had.

cratermoon 4y ago
Study 3 in the paper kind of addressed that by proxy, with Intellectual Humility. People who may not score well on cognitive ability but nevertheless recognize the limits of knowledge and intelligence.
evancox100 4y ago
“Controlling for gender, ethnicity, and education did not meaningfully alter the associations between cognitive ability and support for freedom of speech. Also controlling for participants’ ideology (separately or in addition to the demographic variables) did not meaningfully affect the associations.”
pacbard 4y ago
Interesting question. They partially address it in the paper: > Controlling for gender, ethnicity, and education did not meaningfully alter the relationships between cognitive ability and support for freedom of speech, nor the mediating role of IH. Also controlling for participants’ ideology (separately or in addition to the demographic variables) did not meaningfully alter the results, which can be found at OSF. (p. 39) I read that to suggest that, at least for study 3's results, the inclusion of education did not meaningfully change their results. If we are thinking about possible confounders, something I am wondering about the extent to which their choice to use verbal cognitive ability (i.e., "a vocabulary test (i.e., Wordsum)" for study 1 and 2, and "a (verbal) cognitive ability measure, that is, the Ammons Quick Test" for study 3) could explain participants' preference towards freedom of speech, which arguably is usually discussed as a verbal form of freedom, either spoken or printed. As they are measuring verbal capacity, I would expect people who are better with words to be more drawn to freedom of speech. Maybe people who are more "outgoing" might be drawn more towards freedom of assembly. I am also wondering how people who are drawn more towards non-written forms of communication (e.g., memes, videos, podcasts, etc.) score on their verbal cognitive test and whether they have similar/different views about freedom of speech.

by bragr 4y ago

cratermoon 4y ago

Study 3 in the paper kind of addressed that by proxy, with Intellectual Humility. People who may not score well on cognitive ability but nevertheless recognize the limits of knowledge and intelligence.

evancox100 4y ago

“Controlling for gender, ethnicity, and education did not meaningfully alter the associations between cognitive ability and support for freedom of speech. Also controlling for participants’ ideology (separately or in addition to the demographic variables) did not meaningfully affect the associations.”

pacbard 4y ago

Interesting question. They partially address it in the paper: > Controlling for gender, ethnicity, and education did not meaningfully alter the relationships between cognitive ability and support for freedom of speech, nor the mediating role of IH. Also controlling for participants’ ideology (separately or in addition to the demographic variables) did not meaningfully alter the results, which can be found at OSF. (p. 39) I read that to suggest that, at least for study 3's results, the inclusion of education did not meaningfully change their results. If we are thinking about possible confounders, something I am wondering about the extent to which their choice to use verbal cognitive ability (i.e., "a vocabulary test (i.e., Wordsum)" for study 1 and 2, and "a (verbal) cognitive ability measure, that is, the Ammons Quick Test" for study 3) could explain participants' preference towards freedom of speech, which arguably is usually discussed as a verbal form of freedom, either spoken or printed. As they are measuring verbal capacity, I would expect people who are better with words to be more drawn to freedom of speech. Maybe people who are more "outgoing" might be drawn more towards freedom of assembly. I am also wondering how people who are drawn more towards non-written forms of communication (e.g., memes, videos, podcasts, etc.) score on their verbal cognitive test and whether they have similar/different views about freedom of speech.