Other buildings – Tower #7 IIRC – are documented as falling in exact the same pancake manner as the twin towers, but a few days later. This is usually seen as evidence of conspiracy, but to me this tower was just probably professionally demolished with explosives by the developer, Silverstein, as the building suffered structural damage.

Anyway, the GSS disagrees. WORDSUM seems to follow GWSCI. I guess there might be a confound with “liberalism”, though.

But I agree with #8 that the results may be quite different now. Climate change seems to have become a political shibboleth among some groups, and that may not be reflected in earlier data.

1. Evolution skepticism track religiosity.

2. Global Warming skepticism track understanding of Science – specifically Biology (Carbon cycle), Geography (Oceans, currents, deserts, mountains, rain forests), Astronomy (Sun spot activity) – and also Technology – specifically computer models, and how they are as fallible as the initial conditions or assumptions of the scientists that create them.

So I’d imagine skeptical of #1 is linked to LOW wordsum scores, and that skepticism of #2 is linked to HIGH wordsum scores and scientific/technology knowledge.

I found “EQWLTH” (SHOULD GOVT REDUCE INCOME DIFFERENCES). Running it against GWSCI, I kind of see a trend in the result, but nothing overwhelming. I don’t know how to copy-paste results in this textbox though

Incidentally, I was surprised by the results of EQWLTH. Although the answers are roughly symmetrical, there is a clear imbalance towards redistribution. Americans aren’t hardcore live-and-let-die libertarians after all.

My pet theory is the increase in ties between the leadership of evolution and climate denial organizations is driven by the climate denial industry, trying to head off the development of the Creation Care movement.

I would imagine that there is a high average Wordsum score for this group.