BIOL 351- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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A: introduction: the state of contemporary public and political debate has begun to concern journalists, academics, politicians and large parts of the general public. I"m right and you"re an idiot by james hoggan w/ grania litwin. Became interested in science through climate change: signs of ill health in public debate. Extreme polarization something that seems to have increased in recent years. Polarization among members of the us congress liberal democrats vs conservative republicans between senate and house (ada score) Until the 1980s, there were liberal republicans and conservative democrats but in recent years as extremely divided to opposite spectrums. Consequences of polarization two different spectrums. B: causes: domination of political ideology, identification of oneself with one"s beliefs. The closer one identifies oneself with one"s beliefs, the more resistant those beliefs are to change, even in the face of evidence: tribalism, group consciousness.
