Statistician Mike Ferns punched his calculator repeatedly, writing down various numbers, and crying out in agony.
“I ran the numbers over and over again,” said Ferns. “And I came to the shocking conclusion that, indeed, individuals that identify themselves as conservative or have conservative views are, according to my calculations, conservative.”
Recently, Ferns supervised a survey of the political views of students, in light of the upcoming 2012 presidential elections. He asked for students with conservative views to pick up a survey and answer the questions.
“The survey was stupid,” says conservative IPFW student Bella Goose. “It just asked forty different ways if we were conservative.”
Ferns believes his results are groundbreaking and plans to publish them.
