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. …
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LOL! Gays get special intelligence points because they flunked basic plumbing 101?
Only in insani-tard land.
Tell that to the guy who last tested my IQ, finding it to be 150.
Ha ha! I'm bigger than you by fifteen inches!!!
Tell that to the guy who last tested my IQ, finding it to be 150.
Not your IQ. That guy tested your HIQ!!! Your ‘Hitting It’ Quotient.
Aw hell.
And I thought it was my BRAIN that was big.
This is pure bull!
Actually, I tend to agree that Conservatives are DUMBER than Liberals. I have spent all of my adult life telling conservatives what liberals have in store for this country, starting with education, the military, the economy, and new the replacement of our culture with immigration.
What do the conservatives think? You guessed, I’m a paranoid nutcase.
You sure they were conservatives you were talking to . . . ?
Ok, you made me laugh. And so, so true.
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