{"id":18586,"date":"2013-08-12T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18586"},"modified":"2013-08-13T23:46:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T03:46:59","slug":"study-conservatives-more-adventurous-in-choosing-products-than-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18586\/study-conservatives-more-adventurous-in-choosing-products-than-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Conservatives More Adventurous than Liberals in Consumer Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here’s some interesting socio-political news.\u00a0 A new study from one of the top business schools<\/a> in the nation, Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, contradicts the popular stereotype that conservatives are comparatively stodgy and unadventurous while liberals are open-minded and inclined to try new things.<\/p>\n

According to the study to be released today<\/a>, conservatives are actually more adventurous than liberals when it comes to product selection and real-world exercise of choice.\u00a0 According to Naomi Mandel, one of the study’s authors, “Usually, when you think of conservatives, you think of people who like to have control over things or who are familiar and predictable.”\u00a0 Those of us who actually are conservatives, of course, tend to know better.\u00a0 After all, we’re the ones devoted to “free markets, free people,” as the saying goes.\u00a0 By getting government off of people’s backs and allowing them to make their own individualized choices rather than comply with more of a government-dictated, one-size-fits-all model, societies can become more prosperous and happier, as the real-world evidence repeatedly confirms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So liberals can continue expressing fealty toward choice-limiting institutions like ObamaCare or the Post Office.\u00a0 Contrary to popular myth, we conservatives reply, “Vive le difference!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here’s some interesting socio-political news.\u00a0 A new study from one of the top business schools in the nation, Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, contradicts the popular stereotype that conservatives are comparatively stodgy and unadventurous while liberals are open-minded and inclined to try new things. According to the study to be released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2597,1077,4222,4221],"class_list":["post-18586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservatives","tag-politics","tag-study","tag-w-p-carey-school-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18597,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions\/18597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}