Would you rather be smart and sad, or dumb and happy?
Your answer depends on your politics. Republicans surveyed are more likely to prefer being dumb and happy. Ergo, Democrats are more likely to prefer to be smart and sad.
Republicans who are offended by Black Lives Matter are the same Republicans who think people should not be so easily offended.
Democrats agree that a woman should have the right to do what she wants with her own body. Unless she wants to sell her kidney or have sex for money.
Republicans who believe in free speech are the same Republicans who believe athletes should be prohibited from sitting down during the national anthem.
Nearly half of the liberals who think it's fair for movie stars to make millions of dollars a year think it's unfair for CEOs to make millions of dollars a year.
As the Cards Against Humanity folks concluded, "In other words, CEOs = faceless, evil conservatives. Movie stars = cool liberals I want to be friends with."
Do the people who support Trump’s border wall actually think it will be effective in keeping out illegal immigrants?
Not necessarily. More than half of the people surveyed who support Trump’s border wall think that they could get past it if they were an illegal immigrant.
Most of the people who think their economic opinions are well-informed cannot name a single living economist.
People who trust common sense are more likely to support military action against Russia in response to their interference with the 2016 election.
As the Cards Against the Humanities people pointed out, maybe these people should not be trusting their common sense.
When it comes to knowing the difference between correlation and causation, the American public is about as knowledgeable as a coin flip.
To clarify: just because because two things are somehow related, doesn't mean that one causes the other.
