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I still haven’t figured out why people bother doing this kind of statistical polling, but I have to admit that the results are often interesting.

Other findings of Peter Schweizer, in his book “Makers and Takers,” using “the latest statistical data,” include:

• Some 71 percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent versus less than half (46 percent) of liberals.
• Conservatives have a better work ethic and are much less likely to call in sick than their liberal counterparts.
• Liberals are two and a half times more likely to be resentful of others’ success and 50 percent more likely to be jealous of other people’s good luck.
• Liberals are two times more likely to say it is okay to cheat the government out of welfare money you don’t deserve.
• Some 55 percent of conservatives say they get satisfaction from putting someone else’s happiness ahead of their own, versus only 20 percent of liberals.

Yes, it’s all polemical, and I’m not entirely sure what point it serves. It’s still interesting. To me, at least. And this is my blog.

Update: Welcome, Steynians!

Update 2 - The Wrath of Update: More confirmation of same, with some added bits:

In particular, liberals were five times more likely to participate in unmarried sex (20% vs. 4%), more than three times as likely to view pornography (30% vs. 8%), more than twice as likely to lie (21% vs. and to get drunk (17% vs. 7%), and twice as likely to engage in retaliation (13% vs. 6%) and gossip (17% vs. 9%).

Interesting.