What changed, Druckman explained, was not the trust levels of these groups, but which political party they belonged to. A major partisan realignment during the Civil Rights Era and then in the Reagan era led to a dramatic re-sorting of lower-trusting demographic groups migrating out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party. The result was a partisan gap in trust in scientists that barely existed before 2000 but has since become the largest institutional trust divide between the two parties—larger than gaps in confidence in the Supreme Court, organized religion, or the military. Over recent decades, the percentage of Democrats who trust scientists “a great deal” has risen as dramatically as it has faltered among Republicans.

ok lol I followed the links and found the original talk and that was also the thesis of the paper

a partisan sorting on trust occurred, beginning before but still heavily driven by the pandemic cps.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

What I would hypothesize that you can see here is greatly a *sorting* of Americans by trust

The Democratic Party used to have a lot more cranks who had some weird ideas about science, and the Republican Party used to have a lot more normies who think science is great

And they swapped parties

have you considered those three things are all...... things

he does the worst posts I have ever seen and he makes so many of them. but they're interesting at a further level of remove.

lol that's amazing

it is as far as I can tell neither a bit nor an op, he's an actual Canadian grad student and this is really his deal

it is, nonetheless, a weirdly fascinating and instructive thing to witness

one of us etc etc

there's this guy on twitter, apparently a grad student, whose whole thing is taking the hardest-core 2019-style social justice posting, where total condemnation of a person can be achieved through the implication of their bigotry by any means however tenuous, and applying it to Zionism debates

yeah. I mean if you legit grow up all over then your dialect usually is from all over

yes. but it's striking they can peg me to Massachusetts when all my vowel sounds are somehow from Wisconsin

it's mostly not an accent quiz, there are a few accent questions which peg me as Wisconite-ish, but it's more focused on regional dialect questions for narrowing down locations

I know right? like I recognized that people said "garage sale" a lot but in my head it was just like an alternative

also you people are a bunch of freaks and weirdos with your terminology for when it's raining but the sun in shining

hello connecticut river valley

learned from this that my dialect, which is mostly a ridiculous amalgam of various midwestern and northeastern speech patterns, can be precisely nailed down to a tiny region based on what I call it when a family spends a day selling a bunch of their crap direct to strangers on their front lawn

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Hell toe touches are one of the most cinematic touches how about constantly flicking at the other person's wrist

they're going to need for foil and sabre (this is foil below) not just "tip visualization" but also a way of capturing parries for right-of-way, that's usually the harder thing to see live than the touches

i will watch the Tron fencing

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is it a chilling example of surveillance capitalism and the exploitative practices of Story Corps? or is it... nothing like that whatsoever! this site is so funny to me because its whole appeal is you *can* still post links but no one actually clicks them

ah this is not that new a poll lol

so it's still an outlier (+25 vs a modeled polling average of ~+15) but it's not new data showing a shift, it's just the best remain poll over the past couple months

there's hints that 2026 has shown a significant shift without enough polls to confirm? we'll see

this poll could be an outlier, we'll see, but it's way above the previous polling average

yeah I think so.

you've got the shitty trade deal he backs out of anyway then Greenland and then this huge headline illegal war with particularly bad economic effects on Europe

Vance really does seems like the guy who is most willing to lose the war so this is good

but "later on Monday" through to Tuesday night is an insanely tight deadline to settle such complicated things, especially for someone with, uh, no previous experience whatsoever

it could but the Iran knowers really do not see Ghalibaf and Aragchi as those kinds of players -- they're not acting without alignment with the IRGC