Comments on: What Your House Says About Your Politics

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:59:00 +0000

Sounds pretty close to me…

By: frida tastic

frida tastic — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:43:00 +0000

Super neatnik yellow dog liberal here…this reminds me of the horoscope study. You can make just about anything fit anyone if you make it broad enough. I have one Red Sox shirt that was a gift, no flags of any kind, everything is in its’ place nearly all the time, I have a book of 39 cent stamps………I care more about the inside of the voting booth right now than the inside of my house.

By: Attin

Attin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:08:00 +0000

A person may hide their political ideology from others, including from pollsters, but the researchers were delighted to learn that a peek into subjects’ living quarters or even workspaces could give that away.

By: oneita

oneita — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:10:00 +0000

i completely agree with this study… as a strong liberal my room is messy and awash in art and sculptures from around the world….

same is true for my parents; my mom is liberal and very messy, my dad conservative and extremely ordered and neat.

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:45:00 +0000

I’m really conservative. My dorm lives up to expectations!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:37:00 +0000

I grew up as a moderate conservative and my boyfriend claims liberal status- he’s the neat freak and I’m the messy one. I guess we don’t fit in this study.

By: ann

ann — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:24:00 +0000

what??? I’m a messy liberal… no fair…

By: John Fembup

John Fembup — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:50:00 +0000

“”There’s a lot of bad science here,” says Charney, a fellow at the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University.”

My thoughts exactly.

For starters, how, precisely, was the data collected.

By: Byrd Brain

Byrd Brain — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:48:00 +0000

I think that in the footnotes of the original research document, you find that all data was gathered from watching various episodes of “Dharma and Greg”.

To echo what a lot of people here have already said, this is pop-psychology trash.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:46:00 +0000

Messy conservative!