A new study to be published in a special 2016 election issue of PS: Political Science and Politics finds that reading Harry Potter books leads Americans to take a lower opinion of Donald Trump. In fact, the more books the participants read, the greater the effect. [More]
Great "
original idea" there, Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D.
I don't suppose it could just signify those inclined to immerse themselves in Harry Potter are from a demographic statistically more inclined to trivia and fantasy? Or that the "Harry Potter effect" could just as easily be titled the "
Khloe Kardashian vaginal oil effect"...?
Correlation does not imply causation. Leave it to a cloistered and tenured "political science professor" to count on a "progressive" academic establishment motivated to indoctrinate its charges to believe otherwise.
The transparent agenda here is to make "Trump = Voldemort" a conditioned reaction among the useful idiots and useless eaters, and the Hillary-infatuated media is happy to spread that far and wide.
I see from
her CV this ditzy broad has been on the receiving end of numerous government grants. As offensive as that is to me as a tax hostage, the real facepalmer is:
Department of Homeland Security grant for Survey Experiments Related to Terrorism, Disaster Preparedness, and Homeland Security. (with Matthew Davis), $186,100.
If Opposite Day results are achieved, she can always pretend her burqa is an invisibility cloak.
[Via Roger J]
