ARLIE HOCHSCHILD: Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It’s even worse among liberals. “But what’s startling is the further finding that higher education does not improve a person’s perceptions – and sometimes even hurts it. In their survey answers, highly-educated Republicans were no more accurate in their ideas about Democratic opinion than poorly educated Republicans. For Democrats, the education effect was even worse: the more educated a Democrat is, according to the study, the less he or she understands the Republican worldview.”

I’m not sure this is really “startling.”