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Social scientists long have assumed that liberals are more rational and less fearful than conservatives, but we find that both groups view the world as a dangerous place.

Their experiment looks are whether rationality and fearfulness are correlated with political leaning only among those who are religious. They then acknowledge that liberals are less likely to be religious, and draw unsupported conclusions about the correlation of political leaning in general with rationality and fearfulness.

It must be nice to be a social scientist.