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Using a Sociological Spectrum study of 155 academic sociologists, it reports notable reluctance to evolutionary accounts for behaviors tied to sex differences, while many respondents still accept some genetic and biological influences. The article highlights the study’s narrow focus and its use of plausibility ratings rather than definitive validation of controversial evolutionary assertions, emphasizing why conclusions about “science denial” remain limited.","Liberals deny science, too\nChris Mooney\nThe Washington Post\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/10/28/liberals-deny-science-too/\nDitulis 28 Oktober 2014\nDiakses 9 Oktober 2024\nConservatives often face a lot of questions -- and controversies -- for their views on science. Most notably, only 22 percent of conservative Republicans accept the scientific consensus that global warming is mostly caused by humans. Meanwhile, conservative officials in some states have pushed to undermine the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.\nLiberals get a lot less flack, in general, for ignoring scientific findings. Yet there is also reason to think they, too, are susceptible to allowing their political biases influence their reading of certain scientific questions. And now, a new study just out in the journal Sociological Spectrum accuses them of just that.\nThe study is far from the authoritative word on the subject of left wing science denial. Rather, it is a provocative, narrow look at the question. In particular, the study examined a group of left wing people -- academic sociologists -- and evaluated their views on a fairly esoteric scientific topic. The specific issue was whether the evolutionary history of human beings has an important influence on our present day behavior. In other words, whether or not we are \"blank slates,\" wholly shaped by the culture around us.\nWhile there's virtually no argument in the scientific community that personality traits like being extroverted run in families and have at least some genetic component, there's been much greater debate among academics about whether other phenomena, such as an inclination toward committing violence and demonstrating an unusual level of jealousy, are rooted in nature rather than life experience.\nThe new study, by University of Texas-Brownville sociologist Mark Horowitz and two colleagues, surveyed 155 academic sociologists. 56.7 percent of the sample was liberal, another 28.6 percent was identified as radical, and only 4.8 percent were conservative.  Horowitz, who describes himself as a politically radical, social-justice oriented researcher, said he wanted to probe their views of the possible evolutionary underpinnings of various human behaviors. \"I wanted to get at the really ideological blank slate view, it’s sort of a preemptive assumption that everything is taught, everything is learned,\" he explained.\nSure enough, the study found that these liberal academics showed a pretty high level of resistance to evolutionary explanations for phenomena ranging from sexual jealousy to male promiscuity.\nIn fairness, the sociologists were willing to credit some evolutionary-style explanations. Eight-one percent found it either plausible or highly plausible that \"some people are born genetically with more intellectual potential than others,\" and 70 percent ascribed sexual orientation to \"biological roots.\" Meanwhile, nearly 60 percent of sociologists in the sample considered it \"plausible\" that human beings have a \"hardwired\" taste preference for foods that are full of fat and sugar, and just under 50 percent thought it plausible that we have an innate fear of snakes and spiders (for very sound, survival-focused reasons).\nYet the study also found that these scholars were less willing to consider evolutionary explanations for other aspects of human behavior, especially those relating to male-female differences. Less than 50 percent considered it plausible that that \"feelings of sexual jealousy have a significant evolutionary biological component,\" for instance, and just 36.4 percent considered it plausible that men \"have a greater tendency towards promiscuity than women due to an evolved reproductive strategy.” While it is hard to be absolutely definitive on either of these issues (we weren't there to observe evolution happen), evolutionary psychologists have certainly argued in published studies that people exhibit jealousy in sexual relationships in order to ensure","cbCaiaX7K2fZlPg2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaX7K2fZlPg2","docx",17249,1,3,"English","en",105,"# Findings from the Sociological Spectrum study\n## Sample composition and survey focus\n## Acceptance of some evolutionary explanations\n## Resistance to sex-difference and jealousy/promise-related explanations\n# Limitations and interpretation","[{\"question\":\"What does the Sociological Spectrum study investigate about liberals 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