Literacy does not make us better humans, Curiosity does.

From Tim Hartford’s “how to make the world add up” : a study by Dan Kahan showed that scientific literacy actually reinforce biases and tribalism BUT ‘scientific curiosity’ reduces them! The more curious we are the less tribalism influences our views, and thankfully there is no correlation between curiosity and political affiliation so that trait is present across the political spectrum.

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