{"id":18598,"date":"2017-06-08T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=18598"},"modified":"2017-06-08T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:37:05","slug":"how-political-knowledge-related-to-opinions-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=18598","title":{"rendered":"how political knowledge related to opinions in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, the American National Election Study asked a representative sample of Americans four factual-knowledge questions about government: which party controlled the House and the Senate, how long a Senator&#8217;s term lasts, and which federal program\u00a0costs the most. The mean respondent got just under two (1.94) of the four items right.<\/p>\n<p>I thought some comparisons would be interesting. As shown in the chart below, Clinton voters scored a bit higher than Trump voters&#8211;but not by a mile. Political knowledge of this type correlated somewhat with understanding climate change, and a lot with following political news and planning to vote. Obama and Romney voters had indistinguishable levels of political knowledge. Liberals performed a bit better than conservatives, and both knew more than moderates. Knowing more about government correlated with trusting it a bit\u00a0less.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18618\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/ANESknowledge2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/ANESknowledge2.png 753w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/ANESknowledge2-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, the American National Election Study asked a representative sample of Americans four factual-knowledge questions about government: which party controlled the House and the Senate, how long a Senator&#8217;s term lasts, and which federal program\u00a0costs the most. The mean respondent got just under two (1.94) of the four items right. I thought some comparisons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18622,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598\/revisions\/18622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}