"Pwooof!"
Posted on 01/26/2012 11:50:34 AM PST by Dr. Thorne
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.
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Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found.
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I think you've nailed it.
Liberals love to put on airs and affect the look of the classic tweedy professor. They like to spin convoluted, verbose arguments and adopt technical, opaque jargon.
They don't want to be understood.
They know, as we do, that truth is fairly simple. Logic is clear and precise. Clear statements can't be denied later on.
I suppose they get credit for being able to construct these verbal labyrinths; I guess it takes at least a certain kind of cunning.
But I like to remind them that we stupid people have the same rights they have, and ask them if we should be excluded just because we're stupid. They can't handle that argument.
When evaluating an ideology, whether or not an ideology has many or few followers or whether the followers are more or less intelligent does not matter. What matters is whether the ideology is objectively true or not and corresponds to reality, and whether or not it is evaluated by the correct standard of value, which is whether or not it is compatible with human nature and is beneficial human life. Conservatism is both objectively true and is a moral value.
It seems to be sort of an idiot savant thing in many cases.
Because low IQ people seek out conservative ideologies?
Seems Gordon has some ‘splaining to do.
This is it. Liberals are just as if not more predjudiced about other people, they just dont realize it, because its "ok" to prejudge SOME people but not others.
Yep, that’s why Democrats are always trying to register voters in prison, because of all the genius IQs there.
LOL! This belief has been floating around academia for a long time but at least now someone will be able to use it to get more action at cocktail parties. Back off man, he’s a scientist!
If I take it at face value I’ll have to question the intelligence of famed anti Christian bigots like Bill Maher, and even doubt the metallurgical brilliance of Rosie O’Donnell given some of her other less charitable statements. Sooo many implications - my little reptilian brain hurts.
Livescience is for papers that they do not wish to be peer-reviewd because they are garbage. I believe that this site has also published papers that claim that there is a nitrogen radical crisis or my personal favorite: A paper that claims that humans are using up all the oxygen and we are all gonna die.
Science fictio would be a better name for the site.
A Mass. court just decided a woman considered mentally ill can be forced to have an abortion and be sterilized.
Some libertarian idiot said he agrees that “people like that” should not have babies. Bet he did not figure he would be classifed as mentally unstable by a socialist controlled system.
That makes sense. The most racist and prejudiced people I see on TV, in Hollywood product and in the MSM are all liberals.
That would tend to support the theory that dumb people tend to be racist and bigoted.
"High-intelligence" adults tend to gravitate toward homo-fascist progressive ideologies, history has found. Intelligence and hate are orthogonal, independent attributes.
Don’t believe your lyin eyes! You masters will tell you what to believe!
Those you listed pale in comparison to Bob Beckel!
“Social conservatives were defined as people who agreed with a laundry list of statements such as “Family life suffers if mum is working full-time,” and “Schools should teach children to obey authority.””
The first statement has been repeatedly proven with sociological data. It also is common sense. You need to be indoctrinated to ignore the truth. The truth is that educated liberals don’t ignore the reality; they just know how to give the politically expedient answers, when questioned. They live their lives differently. Educated people in the US are now more likely to marry and stay married than lower income groups. Married women with children, regardless of Hollywood impressions, try to stay home with their children part or fuill time for as long as possible. This is the basis of the widely misunderstood wage differential between men and women. All or which suggests that there is a premium placed on marriage by the same liberals, who give PC answers. The second statement is true for conservatives and liberals. Liberals like people obeying the government. Note the hysteria about the Tea Party.
I would like to see the full study. There are plenty of minority liberals who are racialist. And I’m not going to touch the issues of minorities and IQ testing. This study is an example of bias creating the problem of “garbage-in garbage out”, assuming that the whole study was not engineered for this pathetic news summary. The scientists are simply too liberal and trapped in a sounding room to see their own biases.
For the record, I have an IQ of 145 and a SAT score of 1410 out of 1600. I matriculated with a BA from Columbia University.
His look reminds me of meatball of “All In The Family”.
Two words: Bell Curve.
Hmm, I would bet that my IQ is higher than Dr. Hodson’s, no matter what kind of degrees he has and while I am not racially prejudiced, I am extremely conservative.
“Dress up hate as “science” and peddle it to the leftist rubes who so desparately want to be told they are smarter than those with whom they disagree.”
Never forget that, despite suffering endless waves of leftist illogic, the empirical (real) world is a rock of conservative evidence. For example, if you spend more than you take in, you will eventually run out of money. If you tax earnings, people will be less motivated to earn. If you restrict employers, you will get less employment. If you tout nonsense instead of knowledge, you will get children educated in nonsense and lacking in knowledge. The examples are legion.
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