Comment: A striking contradiction: the very reasoning skills that should foster informed debate instead entrench division. True dialogue, as seen in Conversational Leadership, might offer a way forward.It has been assumed (very reasonably) for many years that enlightened self-government demands a science-literate citizenry.
Perversely, however, recent research has shown that all manner of reasoning proficiency – from cognitive reflection to numeracy, from actively open-minded thinking to science literacy – magnifies political polarization on policy-relevant science.
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