Conservatives and Racists Are Actually Stupid, Study Finds (NBC TV Toledo blog)

NWNO-NBC TV Toledo ^ | 2-22-12 | Michael Henrich

[tcrlaf]

A new study bound to stir controversy found that people with a low I.Q. are drawn to prejudice, racism and a socially conservative political ideology.

The study was conducted by researchers at Brock University in Ontario and published in the journal Psychological Science.

The study's lead author, Dr. Gordon Hodson, told LiveScience that people with lower intelligence scores are attracted to the "structure and order" of these ideologies because they make it easier to comprehend a complicated world.

"Reality is complicated and messy," Dr. Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the study, told The Huffington Post. "Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

[tcrlaf]

The 'Author' of this story is the Morning News Anchor for WNWO, NBC News-Toledo.

This is based on a story on HuffPo this morning titled:

"Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism " By Rebecca Searles

You'll note how this works, folks...

DailyKos, Huffpo CREATE a meme, which is then PIMPED by it's allies in the mainstream media. I also expect this article to be the subject of much joy and laughs on the Number One Liberal News Source tonight, The Daily Show/Colbert, as well.

Create the Meme, Spread The Meme, PIMP the Meme. Reinforce the meme with a 30's-era photo of KKK members. Check, Check, Check, and Check.

"Mr Sane Guy, you don't want to be associated with those STUPID, RACIST, CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE, do you?" -Reinforce the meme...

Create an impression, using the media, to create a social meme. Spead it ALL OVER Social Media, repeated on HUNDREDS of sites, to millions of people, who will almost always only read the headline.

Basic Social Psychology.

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO COUNTER, FOLKS. Call these people out!!

[tcrlaf]

Link to the Huffpo Article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/intelligence-study-links-prejudice_n_1237796.html?ref=fb&sp&comm_ref=false

[skeeter]

Nazis considered Jews parasitic and dirty.

Thats how totalitarian statists roll.

[Egon]

"Reality is complicated and messy"

Yep. And Liberals have made it that way.

[Salgak]

There’s an easy reply. Simply show pictures of Auschwitz, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, and the dead peasants in 1920s Russia. . . .showing what Liberalism leads to. . .

[cripplecreek]

From the communist goals for America of 1963.

38) Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.

39) Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

[Republican1795.]

Notice how conservatives are equated with racists as per a guilt by association tactic.

[Da Coyote]

Funny, we science types know where the bottom of the barrel IQ types who can’t hack math go......and you’ve just read about one of their studies.

I wonder if their math is as bad as that of the global warming clowns.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Stupid people like Adam Smith, F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Fredrick Bastiat, Ayn Rand, R. A. Heinlein, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison.

These are some of my low-IQ authors, philosophers and thinkers. Now, they may not rise to the level of a news anchor, but I'm content.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“Reality is complicated and messy,”

Only for people too stupid to sort themselves out.

[Right Wing Assault]

Wait until the muzzlems realize they’ve been called stupid by the libs. Kill, Burn, March, Scream.

[Yankee]

I get it now.

Alvin Greene is a conservative black racist.

[Right Wing Assault]

It is so cool that they highlight a 91-year-old photo of racists.

[Lazamataz]

The study's lead author, Dr. Gordon Hodson, told LiveScience that people with lower intelligence scores are attracted to the "structure and order" of these ideologies because they make it easier to comprehend a complicated world. "Reality is complicated and messy," Dr. Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the study, told The Huffington Post. "Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

So, dear Doctor, socialism, communism, and fascism are NOT simplifying ideologies that impose order and get rid of that 'complicated, messy' reality?

Careful on how you answer, sir, because this particular Conservative has a measured IQ of 150.

[Mortrey]

“The Democratic Party Owes Blacks An Apology
By Frances Rice
As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S’s: slavery,
secession, segregation and now socialism. Clearly, then, it is the Democratic Party that owes black
Americans an apology – not the Republican Party, nor the United States of America.”

http://images.nbra.info/docs/library/NationalBlackRepublicanAssociation2009/The%20Democratic%20Party%20Owes%20Blacks%20An%20Apology.pdf

(I LOVE this wonderful woman!)

[lastchance]

The words psychology and science ought never to appear together.

[trailboss800]

As a psychiatrist, I've been conducting my own study for the past 25 years. I've found liberals to be emotionally struck in childhood years. Usually as a result of childhood sexual abuse or childhood chemical dependency. I've also found that liberals and children normally think of their parents and other adults as being stupid or of low IQ. Interesting how someone walking around with their under-ware exposed can look down their nose at those who pull their pants up.

[Lazamataz]

I took a peek at Dr. Gordon Hodson's publication history.

It appears the good doctor has a bit of an agenda:

• Choma, B.L., Hodson, G., & Costello, K. (2012). Intergroup disgust sensitivity as a predictor of Islamophobia: The modulating effect of fear. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 499-506.
• Costello, K., & Hodson, G. (2010). Exploring the roots of dehumanization: The role of animal-human similarity in promoting immigrant humanization. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 3-22.
• Dovidio, J.F., Gaertner, S.L., Kawakami, K., & Hodson, G. (2002). Why can’t we just get along? Interpersonal biases and interracial distrust. Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity Minority Psychology, 8, 88-102.
• Hodson, G. (2011). Do ideologically intolerant people benefit from intergroup contact? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 154-159.
• Hodson, G. (2009). The puzzling person-situation schism in prejudice research. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 247-248.
• Hodson, G. (2008). Interracial prison contact: The pros for (socially dominant) cons. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 325-351.
• Hodson, G., & Busseri, M.A. (2012). Bright minds and dark attitudes: Lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact. (Laz notes: No left-wing racism out there? Hmmmmm.... I remember the origins of the KKK) Psychological Science, 23, 187-195. Hodson, G., Choma, B. L., & Costello, K. (2009).
• Experiencing Alien-Nation: Effects of a simulation intervention on attitudes toward homosexuals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 974-978.
• Hodson, G., & Costello, K. (2007). Interpersonal disgust, ideological orientations, and dehumanization as predictors of intergroup attitudes. Psychological Science, 18, 691-698.
• Hodson, G., Dovidio, J. F., & Esses, V. M. (2003). Ingroup identification as a moderator of positive-negative asymmetry in social discrimination. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 215-233.
• Hodson, G., Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (2002). Processes in racial discrimination: Differential weighting of conflicting information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 460-471.
• Hodson, G., & Esses, V.M. (2005). Lay perceptions of ethnic prejudice: Causes, solutions, and individual differences. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 329-344.
• Hodson, G., Harry, H., & Mitchell, A. (2009). Independent benefits of contact and friendship on attitudes toward homosexuals among authoritarians and highly identified heterosexuals. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 509-525.
• Hodson, G., Hogg, S. M., & MacInnis, C. C. (2009). The role of “dark personalities” (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy), Big Five personality factors, and ideology in explaining prejudice. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 686-690.
• Hodson, G., Hooper, H., Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (2005). Aversive racism in Britain: Legal decisions and the use of inadmissible evidence. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 437-448.
• Hodson, G., MacInnis, C.C., & Rush, J. (2010). Prejudice-relevant correlates of humor temperaments and humor styles. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 546-549.
• Hodson, G., & Olson, J. M. (2005). Testing the generality of the name letter effect: Name initials and everyday attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1099-1111.
• Hodson, G., Rush, J., & MacInnis, C.C. (2010). A “joke is just a joke” (except when it isn’t): Cavalier humor beliefs facilitate the expression of group dominance motives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 660-682.

Quite a few of these titles seem to imply an agenda.

[duffee]

I’m probably so stupid that I’d take it as a compliment if I were compared to Newt.

[CanadianYankee]

Truer words have not been spoken lastchance!