the article posted in no. 27 above is a pretty thoroughgoing demolition of the study as a whole--but you didnt really need to to find fundamental problems with it--the bizarre definition of center was indication enough.
this study is yet another example of crap "scholarship" from the right.
and conservatives wonder why academics do not take them seriously--and instead of thinking about the real issue, they whine about pc and all that--fact is that conservative ideology enables a whole swath of bad scholarship--conservative institutions fund studies that "confirm" ideological positions staked out in advance. these institutions seem to be under the impression that the presence of a scholarly-seeming apparatus (footnotes, etc.) means that the arguments around which their positions are built are somehow serious.
they aren't.
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