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Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Last updated at 9:54 AM on 8th February 2012 | Rob Waugh

Posted on 02/13/2012 11:35:51 AM PST by Olog-hai

Right-wingers tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow up to have racist and anti-gay views, says a controversial new study.

Conservative politics work almost as a 'gateway' into prejudice against others, say the Canadian academics.

The paper analyzed large UK studies which compared childhood intelligence with political views in adulthood across more than 15,000 people.

The authors claim that people with low intelligence gravitate towards right-wing views because they make them feel safe.

Crucially, people's educational level is not what determines whether they are racist or not—it's innate intelligence, according to the academics.

Social status also appears to play no part.

The study, by academics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, used information from two UK studies from 1958 and 1970 , where several thousand children were assessed for intelligence at age 10 and 11, and then asked political questions aged 33.

The 1958 National Child Development involved 4,267 men and 4,537 women born in 1958.

The British Cohort Study involved 3,412 men and 3,658 women born in 1970.

It's the first time the data from these studies has been used in this way.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: confirmationbias; democrats; gagdadbob; intelligence; leftism; liberalfascism; nodemocrats2012; onecosmosblog; psychobabble; unversityleftists
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To: Olog-hai
Check out Brock University LOL!

Brock celebrates its place in the biosphere with UN flag raising

Published on January 26 2012 Brock University raised a United Nations flag at its St. Catharines campus today to celebrate its geographic location within the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Ontario's Niagara Escarpment a Biosphere Reserve in February 1990.

The ceremony was co-ordinated by Brock’s newly established Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC), which was created to pursue transdisciplinary research at the University concerning the environment, sustainability and social-ecological resilience.

21 posted on 02/13/2012 11:53:43 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: DainBramage

The same UNESCO that recognized “Palestine”, of course.


22 posted on 02/13/2012 11:54:55 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Accurate Prophecy TRUMPS Bogus Lefty IQ scores EVERY TIME! Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

23 posted on 02/13/2012 11:58:17 AM PST by Chance Hart
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To: Olog-hai

What do British “right wingers” have to do with Americans anyway?


24 posted on 02/13/2012 11:58:22 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Olog-hai
I'm sure you've all had the displeasure of interacting with a die hard leftist. They are not intelligent people.
25 posted on 02/13/2012 11:58:23 AM PST by youngidiot (Hear Hear!)
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To: FrankR

Psychiatrists and psychologists are dangerous to humans and other living things. 85% of’em are certifiable and should be removed to an island where they can only analyze each other. They would be happy as clams for the rest of their unnatural lives.


26 posted on 02/13/2012 11:59:32 AM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Olog-hai
“Social status also appears to play no part.”

That alone would prove that this ‘study’ and the people that produced it are completely incompetent.

My wife works at a university. It is amazing how many people profess every liberal belief (so called liberal straight ticket) but when you have a private conversation you find out that they think most of it is nonsense.

Part of the success of liberalism is that for so many fields it has become a prerequisite to profess belief for it.

And that is the other thing this study missed entirely. Many people, especially the more educated, feel they must express liberal ideas in public. Conservatives are more likely to say, “FU, this is what I believe - take it or leave it!” What people openly profess to believe is not so much a measure of intelligence as it is a measure of backbone.

27 posted on 02/13/2012 11:59:56 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: Olog-hai

What a BS survey. The authors define “right wing views” as racist views. Racists usually do have lower intelligence. Ergo, Right wingers are stupid. But what about the fact that through out US history, most racists were Democrats? And is a belief in limited government “stupid.” Is a belief in Socialism “smart.” How does that play out when you view the evidence of the collapse of Socialist countries? How does it play out when you see that Statism results in situations like Greece where people riot when you try to balance the budget, or Detroit, where liberalism has destroyed the city? Were those people smart? Were the ones who said expanding entitlements is dangerous stupid?


28 posted on 02/13/2012 12:01:22 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: FrankR

Liberalism is the intellectually lazy path to a feeling of self-worth and superiority. It’s a sham that rejects reality in favor of a world view that sees things the way the liberal wants things to be instead of the way they really are. Liberal self delusion is at the heart of this bogus “study”.


29 posted on 02/13/2012 12:03:37 PM PST by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: I cannot think of a name

My wife works at a university. It is amazing how many people profess every liberal belief (so called liberal straight ticket) but when you have a private conversation you find out that they think most of it is nonsense
Doublethink in real life. What is even worse is that they have the authority to throw the "liberal straight ticket" into the sewer where it belongs yet tenaciously hold onto it; they don't have to fear loss of funding that much.
30 posted on 02/13/2012 12:03:49 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Right-wingers tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow up to have racist and anti-gay views, says a controversial new study.

So, I take it soccer-riot yobs are right-wingers?

31 posted on 02/13/2012 12:11:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of fascists and their parasites.)
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To: yetidog

There they go confusing creativity and imagination with intelligence again.


32 posted on 02/13/2012 12:12:06 PM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: FrankR
You make sound points. To understand what has been going on in Academia, see Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education.

Pay particular attention to the role of Gordon Allport, the supporter of the Communists in the Spanish Civil War, who as a Professor at Harvard was touted across academia as an expert on "Prejudice," by the 1950s & 1960s. He even insulted those who valued their own families--a real example of fatuous Leftist theory substituted for reality.

William Flax

33 posted on 02/13/2012 12:13:23 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: SampleMan

STUDY FINDS LEFT WING STUDIES FAIR AND UNBIASED!


34 posted on 02/13/2012 12:13:44 PM PST by cartoonistx
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
But what about the fact that through out US history, most racists were Democrats?

I truly wish that this would be broadcast across every PA system in every school in every state of this nation every day. We would hear high school "history" teachers' heads exploding to the 1812 Overture across the country. It would be epic.

35 posted on 02/13/2012 12:13:56 PM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Darteaus94025

It means you disagree with them!


36 posted on 02/13/2012 12:14:34 PM PST by JaguarXKE
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To: Olog-hai

More likely, the brighter you are the more likely you are to hide your prejudice. Gosh, the authors of the study are not very bright.


37 posted on 02/13/2012 12:20:02 PM PST by brytlea (An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
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To: Olog-hai

This must explain why left wingers are constantly clamoring for the nanny state to wipe their arse, while right wingers prefer the government stay the hell out of their grill.


38 posted on 02/13/2012 12:22:39 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Olog-hai
Experts agree and studies show that Lefties are smart and Conservatives are stupid.

Eye an a Cunservitfe and thets knot trew!

39 posted on 02/13/2012 12:23:32 PM PST by 4yearlurker
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To: Olog-hai

Interesting. Then why are we working while they’re camping out in public places?


40 posted on 02/13/2012 12:25:29 PM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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