Study finds that college grads are the least economically "enlightened"

[Slyhawk]

As for ideology, liberals and progressives fair the worst when answering basic economic questions.

Some sample questions:

Restrictions on housing development make housing less affordable.

A company with the largest market share is a monopoly.

Third-world workers working for American companies overseas are being
exploited.

Free trade leads to unemployment.


http://econjwatch.org/file_download/432/ButurovicKleinMay2010.pdf

[Match34]

Challengers might say something like: “Well, not every restriction on housing development makes housing less affordable,” but such a challenger would be tendentious and churlish.



Haha, sounds like a few people around here!

[PipeDaddy]

liberals and progressives fair the worst when answering basic economic questions

Well that's certainly not a shock. They are more concerned with "fairness" than reality.

[Gushawk]

"Some will take exception to our take on the eight questions."

Some of them are inarguable, others are statements of economic opinion cast as fact.

[RobertIngersoll]

Here again we should acknowledge that none of the eight questions
challenge typical conservative or libertarian policy positions, and that had some
such questions been included, the measured economic-enlightenment means by
ideological groups may well have been somewhat different.

Gee, ya think?

Also, I should point out that the paper does not support the contention that college grads score worse than non-college graduates.