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Comment author: Suryc11 10 August 2012 08:16:23PM 3 points [-]

Agreed. He also suggests that there were obvious controls that should have been used but were not:

Perhaps the most problematic aspect of the Inbar and Lammers paper, however, is the above mentioned lack of the obvious control: they didn’t ask conservatives about their biases (nor, for that matter, did they ask another obvious control group: politically neutral or middle of the road faculty).