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[quote=Anonymous]^ agree... on the flip side, not all "educated" people are intelligent. I mean.. look at Trump.

But, the less educated you are, the more susceptible you are to conspiracy theories, and probably cult figures.

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/12/05/504388777/educations-tie-to-conspiracy-theory-belief

[quote] a variety of demographic factors have been found to predict conspiratorial thinking, including low levels of education.

one of these cognitive consequences is a shift away from relatively intuitive and automatic processes — of the kind that support simple, intentional narratives — in favor of more deliberative, analytic thinking. In fact, the causal link between analytic thinking and greater rejection of conspiracy theories is the one piece of the story that does have direct experimental support: A paper published in 2014 found that having people complete a task that increased analytic thinking in the short term led them to report lower belief in conspiracy theories when asked immediately after. Education could be a way to generate similar but longer-lasting effects.[/quote][/quote]

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