{"id":2124,"date":"2013-10-02T20:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2013-10-02T21:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:13:38","slug":"chart-of-the-week-conspiracist-thinking-and-the-leftright-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/10\/02\/chart-of-the-week-conspiracist-thinking-and-the-leftright-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Week &#8211; Conspiracist Thinking and the Left\/Right Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, some kind soul pointing me to PPP\u2019s latest round of conspiracy-theory related questions, which you may find in complete form here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/pdf\/2013\/PPP_Release_National_1002.pdf\">http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/pdf\/2013\/PPP_Release_National_1002.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering whether it&#8217;s really\u00a0worth looking into, I&#8217;ve made a couple of charts to tease you just a bit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/gunz-yo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2125\" alt=\"gunz-yo\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/gunz-yo.png\" width=\"599\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/gunz-yo.png 599w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/gunz-yo-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is pretty much what I would have expected, on this issue. Gun paranoia has become a proxy for conservative authenticity here in deep red Oklahoma, I&#8217;m not surprised to hear that it isn&#8217;t just us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/sharia-Q13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2126\" alt=\"sharia-Q13\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/sharia-Q13.png\" width=\"599\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/sharia-Q13.png 599w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/sharia-Q13-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, the &#8220;somewhat liberal&#8221; folk (people like myself) are the most likely to forthrighly reject conspiracist wackaloonery.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, okay, just one more chart:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2127\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/Untitled.png\" width=\"599\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/Untitled.png 599w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/10\/Untitled-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, some kind soul pointing me to PPP\u2019s latest round of conspiracy-theory related questions, which you may find in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}