"I’ve said it many times: conservatives went crazy, and it ruined liberals. In general, because the other side is so crazy, liberals have come to feel no pressure to be informed, coherent, or internally consistent in their own views, as they rest easy in the assumption that the other side will always be worse. In particular, conservatives have voiced a lot of genuinely anti-science arguments, such as in support of creationism or in denial of climate change, which has created a cultural assumption within liberalism that its members are always on the side of science simply by dint of not being conservatives. This has led to the embrace of flatly unscientific positions among progressives who self-define as those who “follow the science,” such as the widespread denial that obesity has serious negative health consequences; they see themselves as the pro-science side, by definition, so feel no need to critically review such unscientific beliefs. And this results in the condition we see with educational assessment: liberals believe that these tests don’t work for purely political reasons, and because they have come to see their instincts as perfectly in line with science in all circumstances, they feel no compulsion whatsoever to determine whether those instincts actually have any basis in fact."
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