Posted on 02/24/2021 8:08:04 PM PST by Ennis85
A study has found a scientific link between low levels of intelligence and those who express homophobic views.
The findings, published by researchers at the University of Queensland, Australia, supports existing studies that have previously drawn correlations between having a low IQ and holding prejudiced views.
However, this marks the first time a link between lower intelligence and homophobia has been examined in populations outside of the US.
Published in the journal Intelligence, the study drew from a sample of more than 11,500 Australians.
The research team analysed data from the 2012 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, with questions intended to assess the cognitive abilities of respondents, as well as a 2015 HILDA survey that questioned respondents about their opinions on equal rights.
Among other questions, participants were asked to place the statement ‘Homosexual couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples do’ on a scale of one (strongly disagree) to seven (strongly agree).
It was ultimately discovered that, the lower a person’s intelligence was found to be, the more likely they would be to express prejudiced views against same-sex couples.
The authors of the study wrote:
There are well-known correlations between low cognitive ability and support of prejudicial or non-egalitarian attitudes.
This paper adds to existing knowledge by providing the first analyses of the associations between cognitive ability and attitudes towards LGBT issues. Individuals with low cognitive ability are less likely to support equal rights for same-sex couples.
The authors concluded: ‘Our results suggest that cognitive abilities play a critical, albeit underappreciated, role in prejudice. Consequently, we recommend a heightened focus on cognitive ability in research on prejudice and a better integration of cognitive ability into prejudice models.’
The link was found to be particularly strong during the assessment of verbal ability, and was found to hold true even after factoring in variables such as education and socio-economic status.
Is it maintaining the position that marriage is the union between man and woman?
That a child is best raised by a mother and father?
Pointing out that anal leads to all sorts of fatal STDs?
And what rights btw are being denied to homosexuals that everyone else has?
I got your link right here. It’s inversely linked to low intelligence (whatever “IT” is).
I follow the science that makes good sense.
Only a heterophobe would believe such a study
most people against homosexuality are not homophobic.
they do not have an irrational fear of it.
they are rationalyly opposed to it for any variety of logical and sound reasons.
the left tries to paint any objection to it as homophobic, but that’s completely incorrect.
This is the danger of an entitled Academe, “intellectual fascism.” I know the word is used way too much, but it should be used when it is precisely germane, as with this ridiculous issue. Using “homophobia” as a cudgel, when no phobia is present or even evident, is naked demonizing and a denial of intelligent thought. Something that SJW’s seem well suited for.
And a gay scientist discovered the gay gene once. Scientists are people. They can lie.
The reprobates are just showing that they are indeed reprobate
Romans 1:22 in action
Higher Risk of Mental Health Problems for Homosexuals
Medically reviewed by Scientific Advisory Board — Written by Jane Collingwood on May 17, 2016
Homosexual people tend to experience more mental health problems than heterosexual people, research indicates. Discrimination may contribute to the higher risk, believes lead researcher Dr. Apu Chakraborty of University College London, UK.
His team looked at rates of mental disorder among 7,403 adults living in the UK, whose details were obtained from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007. Rates of depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobia, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and alcohol and drug dependence were significantly higher in homosexual respondents.
https://psychcentral.com/lib/higher-risk-of-mental-health-problems-for-homosexuals#1
The plan is to get everyone to accept this by simply wanting to not appear less intelligent.
Ellsworth Toohey is alive and well in the authors of this study and article.
Won’t these morons be surprised when they get to Judgement Day and God tells them that He in fact has a pretty high level of intelligence.
Despite their claims to the contrary.
I was also wondering what ‘homophobic’ is supposed to mean.
I don’t know anybody who is ‘homophobic’.
I know people who don’t think it’s ‘natural’; but a lot of those same people feel no prejudice toward homosexuals themselves, and have often loved and defended individuals of the homosexual persuasion.
This make me feel better about being about as dumb as as rock
Indeed, only idiots believe "Homophobia" is a real thing.
professing to be wise, they were made fools
Basically it means the scientists made stuff up and then cooked the books to 'find' evidence that they are right. You will never go wrong by ignoring such studies.
The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God.
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/1%20Corinthians%203%3A19
Conservaphobia came first and causes mental disorders in people like this writer.
Any sane person opposes homosexuality. Disease, mental illness, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, and at the end, an empty loneliness.
I work in Los Angeles, in architecture, where there are lots of “gays”. They are the saddest people I’ve ever known.
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