Yahoo Live Science: "Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice"

Yahoo News Live Science ^ | 01/26/12 | Stephanie Pappas

[Redcat]

There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.

The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice.......

[Redcat]

Another one of these "scientific" studies. I'm sure it's completely unbiased and withstood the rigorous peer review process. Ain't science grand!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb****

So most of the people in the NAALCP are dumb. Gee, I already knew that.

[TwoSwords]

Yahoo is a cosmic joke. A sign of the end.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Take a look at the publications of this dipstick!

Gordon Hodson

[Havisham]

This will offend the President. . .after someone explains it to him.

[PressurePoint]

Note their definition of conservative: Conservatives “stress hierarchy and resistance to change.”

Classic propaganda: Simply redefine your opponent’s beliefs. Then attack those beliefs.

If conservatives truly “stress hierarchy and resistance to change,” I should be able to assign the inverse definition to the inverse label: Liberals stress disorder and lawlessness.

[Jonty30]

Actually it makes perfect sense.

Those who are prejudiced against Conservatives have low IQ’s.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Another taxpayer pell grant study no doubt.

[vaudine]

This definition fits libs. They stress their hierarchy and are totally resistant to changing their views. To them compromise is when everything goes their way.

Guess this proves what I have always known. Libs are intellectually challenged to the point that they have no moral rudders and cannot live in the real world. Instead, they daydream of their ideal Utopia where all is fair according to their preconceived ideas of fairness.

A pox on all of them.

vaudine

[Redcat]

Nope, no agenda there.

[Darren McCarty]

I'm an idiot because I'm a social conservative.

Signed:
Attorney, business owner, and above average IQ (118 last I checked).

[Gene Eric]

>> Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found.

Then explain why unionism saturates the Democrat party?

[HereInTheHeartland]

Jeremiah Wright is a social conservative????

[TigersEye]

Articles that explain how modern liberals suffer from a mental disorder.

• Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals "Think"
• Idiot Compassion
• The Secret to the Suicidal Liberal Mind
• Democratic Realism
• Swedish Moonbats Suppress Knowledge of Communist Genocide
• Is Liberalism Political Madness?
• Liberals clinically mad, concludes top psychiatrist
• Liberalism and the two roads to nihilism
• Liberalism is a Psychology
• A Theory of War by Other Means
  Political Thought as Evolutionary Psychology
  (a book written by FReeper AnonymousConservative)

[Huntress]

Most recently, my research addresses the contextual and personality factors involved in the attenuation of intergroup conflict, such as encouraging common ingroup categorization and identification. Specifically, I am testing the benefits of increasing positive intergroup contact and using intergroup friendships to reduce bias in a variety of settings.

"College teaching tends to attract the kind of people who are incapable of making a living with either their minds or their hands." --Florence King

[Pharmboy]

James Taranto, author of "The Best of the Web" column for the Wall St. Journal had a brilliant comment about this "study" today:

So IQ tests are racist, except when they're used to "prove" that people with "socially conservative ideologies" are racist and intellectually inferior.

Game, set, match.

[TigersEye]

People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, ...

• New Black Panthers
• La Raza
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Congressional Black Caucus

Let's not be hasty. They may be on to something.

[roses of sharon]

Propaganda of the highest order.

The moochers and looters accusing the producers of low I.Q.?????

[Hunton Peck]

Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change...

Ideologies, IOW, like union-supportive statism (often referred to by outmoded and inaccurate words like "liberalism" or "progressivism"), which rejects the dynamics of markets in favor of the superficially comforting stasis of government planning.

[Dogbert41]

Another Saul Alinsky want-to-be.