| Summary: | Right-wing ideology
and cognitive ability, including objective numeracy, have been found to relate
negatively. Although objective and subjective numeracy correlate positively,
it is unclear whether subjective numeracy relates to political ideology in the
same way. Replicating and extending previous research, across two samples of
American adults (ns = 455, 406), those who performed worse on objective
numeracy tasks scored higher on right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social
dominance orientation (SDO), and they self-identified as more conservative on
general, social, and economic continua. Controlling for objective numeracy,
subjective numeracy related positively to measures of right-wing ideologies. In
other words, those who strongly (vs. weakly) endorsed right-wing ideologies
believed they are good with numbers yet performed worse on numeracy tasks. We
discuss implications for the opposing direction of associations between
ideology with objective versus subjective numeracy and similarities with
literature on overconfidence.
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