Jenny Wising, Madelene Ström, Jenny Hallgren, Komalsingh Rambaree
Certified Registered Nurse Anaesthetists' and Critical Care Registered Nurses' perception of knowledge/power in teamwork with Anaesthesiologists in Sweden: a mixed-method study
BMC nursing
two largescale longitudinal datasets combined n 5761 investigated abilityrelated political polarization responses covid19 pandemic observed polarization greater ability emotional responses risk perceptions productpurchase intentions across five waves data collection diverse convenience sample february 2020 july 2020 study 1 n 1267 specifically liberal participants negative emotional responses greater risk perceptions covid19 conservative participants compared conservatives liberal participants also interpreted quantitative information indicating higher covid19 risk sought covidrelated news liberal conservative news media key importance also compared verbal numeric cognitive abilities independent capacity predict greater polarization although measures numeric ability objective numeracy often used index abilityrelated polarization ideological differences pronounced among higher verbal ability specifically similar results emerged secondary analysis risk perceptions nationally representative longitudinal dataset study 2 n 4494 emotions purchase intentions included dataset confirmed verbalabilityrelated polarization findings noncovid policy attitudes ie weapons bans medicareforall measured crosssectionally present study 2 documented abilityrelated polarization emerging time first time rather simply measuring polarization existing beliefs studies demonstrated verbal ability measures robust predictors abilityrelated polarization together results suggest polarization may function amount andor application verbal knowledge rather selective application quantitative reasoning skills