Posted on 11/16/2014 9:02:43 PM PST by tcrlaf
According to a recent study out of Virginia Tech, a team of scientists have found that the way a person responds to disgusting images can reveal their political leanings.
Maggots, rotting carcasses, gross gunk in the kitchen sink – all these were used in the research, and the results were pretty astonishing.
“Disgusting images generate neural responses that are highly predictive of political orientation even when those neural responses don’t correspond with an individual’s conscious reaction to the images,” said Read Montague, a Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute professor who led the study. “Remarkably, we found that the brain’s response to a single disgusting image was enough to predict an individual’s political ideology.”
Participants in the study were shown images such as filthy toilets and rotting animal carcasses, mixed with both neutral and pleasant images like beautiful landscapes and babies.
After viewing the images, the subjects took part in a political ideology questionnaire, asking about how often they discuss politics and how they felt about topics such as church-state separation and gay marriage.
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The name of the blog is "Americans Against the Tea Party", and lest you dismiss it, their Facebook page has 377,000+ followers. To contrast, the Free Republic Facebook page has 4,400 followers.
And we wonder WHY we lost the information war to the radical left??
And you wonder where The Daily Show gets its material to feed to the Low-Info voters??
I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
Not hard to find lots of worldwide America-haters.
lest you dismiss it, their Facebook page has 377,000+ followers …
Material written by a left winger of course. Their criteria of being more evolved just means more diversity, gayness, and stupidity enough to let a dictator lead them into slavery
It looks like the Ahnenerbe is back after a 70 year hiatus, searching for evidence of foregone, politically correct conclusions.
Sounds a lot like the streets of San Francisco which liberals thrive in and which conservatives find mildly disgusting .
These researchers may be on to something
LOL! Sometimes they insult themselves but are not intelligent enough to know it.
Johnathan gruber doesn’t agree with this article.
> “Disgusting images generate neural responses that are highly predictive of political orientation even when those neural responses don’t correspond with an individual’s conscious reaction to the images,” said Read Montague, a Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute professor who led the study. “Remarkably, we found that the brain’s response to a single disgusting image was enough to predict an individual’s political ideology.”
Yeah real scientific method you have there. Likewise I can put a montage of photos showing pictures of people doing hard work, going to church, Jesus, guns, the Constitution, etc...and predict your ideology just the same by your reaction...
What idiots!
So, they were using skulls full of mush and drawing inferences from that data set, sounds like junk science to me.
Yet we were the least Grubered out of the whole population.
So the study proved liberals are pussified. That’s not really worthy of study. It’s pretty much common knowledge.
intelligence is like cool, if a person has to TELL you they ARE, they aren't...
Articles that explain how modern liberals suffer from a mental disorder.
The image of gay butthole sex in the morning will make me hurl.
I guess I’m right wing crazy conservative.
Sometimes, all you can do, is laugh at these idiots, and tell them to F themselves.
Ping to KC and TADSLOS
Can’t wait to see there guys when we trade with caps. Gonna make for interesting discussions in Paradise Falls.
“OH!!! I’d rather STARVE than eat 200 year old beans...”
Good.
Articles like this little dingleberry explain why the Badgers just beat the Cornhuskers like leettle gurls.
I have expert opinions as well that back this position. So there.
Or that FB is the den of homosexuals and Millenials desperate to tell the world how their morning bowel movement went.
I really wonder if FB would exist at all without all those iFag smartphone people constantly have in their faces.
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