I think pets are such a nuisance, especially in the cities due to pet waste being everywhere. If they raised license fees on dogs and cats, and made it a felony to have an unlicensed pet, then there would be less dog shit on the sidewalks and our planet would be a healthier place for all.
They studied two different groups of people—381 in the first sample and 417 in a second batch to try to replicate their results. They gave the first sample a survey that tested how conservative or liberal their political beliefs were. Radicalism exists on both ends of the spectrum; the people at the furthest extremes of left and right are considered “radical.” After taking the questionnaire, the first group did a simple test: they looked at two different clusters of dots and quickly identified which group had more dots. Then they rated how confident they were in their choice. People with radical political opinions completed this exercise with pretty much the same accuracy as moderate participants. But “after incorrect decisions, the radicals were less likely to decrease their confidence,” Fleming says.
The popular image of America’s suburbs as a realm of swing voters, moderates, and independents is wrong, a recent poll suggests. In fact, suburban voters are much less likely to be political independents than either urban or rural voters. Only 15 percent of the poll’s suburban respondents were independents, lower than the rate among rural or urban residents.
What makes the suburbs politically distinct in America may not be moderation, but rather a more even split between Democrats and Republicans than exists in left-leaning cities or right-leaning rural areas.
My perception is that suburbanites are generally more educated, and the more formal education a person has, the more likely they are to have a solid conception of how the world works, and the better that they are finding facts that support their own opinion.