Posted on 08/27/2012 1:46:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The notion that liberals are smarter than conservatives is familiar to anyone who has spent time on a college campus. The College Democrats are said to be ugly, smug and intellectual; the College Republicans, pretty, belligerent and dumb. There's enough truth in both stereotypes that the vast majority of college students opt not to join either club.
But are liberals actually smarter? A libertarian (and, as such, nonpartisan) researcher, Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science, has just written a paper that is set to be published in March by the journal Social Psychology Quarterly. The paper investigates not only whether conservatives are dumber than liberals but also why that might be so.
The short answer: Kanazawa's paper shows that more-intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. They are also less likely to say they go to religious services. These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more likely to grow into adults who vote for Liberal Democrats, even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomics. What's new in Kanazawa's paper is a provocative theory about why intelligence might correlate with liberalism. He argues that smarter people are more willing to espouse "evolutionarily novel" values — that is, values that did not exist in our ancestral environment, including weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers (liberalism, as Kanazawa defines it), which never would have occurred to us back when we had to hunt to feed our own clan and our only real technology was fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Followed by studies titled:
Liberals Nicer Than Conservatives
Liberals More Popular Than Conservatives
Liberals Friendlier Than Conservatives
Soccer Moms wait wide-eyed for such infinitely redefinable wordcrap. Do have ANY idea how many decaf lattes Starbuck sells to these drooling idiots while they wrap their pinheads around these programming memes... er, cuttingly analytical insights?
An IQ difference of (supposedly) 11 points between conservatives and liberals is "highly statistically significant."
An IQ difference of (supposedly) 15 to 18 points between blacks and whites is totally meaningless.
Although since most blacks are liberals this implies that the difference between white conservatives and liberals is even greater.
Too many people confuse “intellectually evaluated” with “intellectually fashionable”.
Most liberals I know are reasonably conservative about things they know something about in detail (and that’s usually not political issues), but they espouse knee-jerk liberal attitudes on just about everything else because that’s what they think makes them look like smart people, or at least keeps them from looking like a bunch of yahoos.
The perfect example is global warming/climate change. No liberal I’ve ever questioned thoroughly knows a damn thing about the controversy at any level of scientific detail, but they all know they have to say that they’re opposed to CO2 emissions because that’s the “scientific consensus”.
Even better!
PhD programs do not graduate those whose arguments disagree with prevailing thought. To the extent that universities are dominated by leftist thought and practices, no other ideas can make it to the top.
In fact, competition is washed out because of its political leanings or the whim of various professors.
48% pay no federal income tax. Ask yourself if these liberals are smart?
If libtards were smarter than Conservatives, you would not be working for that pos commie rag “time mag”.
LLS
See my tagline.
I think this explains zero’s liberalism. When he says ‘you didn’t build that’, he’s 100% correct, liberals don’t build anything, just ‘improve’ things. He doesn’t have the intellectual interest to understand real value created by real workers who produce something that someone else wants and will pay for, he’s ‘transcended’ that.
He has no understanding of the jungle because he’s never lived in it, just toured it via his commie sponsors, in expensive cars and planes.
If liberals are supposedly more intelligent, then why are they more likely to be single as opposed to married, more likely to be on welfare, or other government assistance, more likely to be poor, more likely to commit crimes?
And why is it that every election liberals try to get as many ill informed and ignorant people to vote if their way is the way of the smart ones.
Sorry don’t buy it, I expect there are serious flaws in the study.
“If liberals are supposedly more intelligent, then why are they more likely to be single as opposed to married, more likely to be on welfare, or other government assistance, more likely to be poor, more likely to commit crimes?”
To liberals, all those things are a sign of intelligence. Everyone else is stupid with low IQs.
Have you ever seen liberals comment on articles? They can barely grasp the English language.
“He argues that smarter people are more willing to espouse “evolutionarily novel” values — that is, values that did not exist in our ancestral environment, including weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers (liberalism, as Kanazawa defines it), which never would have occurred to us back when we had to hunt to feed our own clan and our only real technology was fire.”
YEAH THAT’S WHY ALL THE LIBERALS STARTED HOSPITALS AND UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY. Pushed for valuing women more than just an appendage or property.
Oh wait, IT’S THOSE STUPID IGNORANT CHRISTIANS THAT DID ALL THAT.
Libtardism reaching pandemic proportions today.
Even a cursory look at DU will amply demonstrate that, compared to FR conservatives, liberals are sorely deficient in vocabulary, dependent as they are on the F*** and S*** words.
In a way they are. They are sustaining themselves like leeches off of poor saps who keep working.
Go Galt as best you can. Starve the leeches.
Ideally we could really probably take the whole thing down. Work hard a few years, save up enough not to work 2-3 years, be fired from work, collect unemployment and other benefits as long as possible. Overwhelm the system until it collapses.
If all makers stopped generating taxable income we could shut down the entitlement system. When mostly everyone is taking and nobody’s making, the benefits, they must stop flowing. What’s easier to cut, benefits from losers that don’t work and want to mooch off soceity, or military defense and the genuinely needy like the elderly and truly disabled. Moochers get cut off.
Makers going galt can form their own networks over craigslist to barter for equivalent trades and equivalent services (ie helping out a friend). Can find useful free stuff out there. Easy peasy.
They would reply it’s because evil conservatives have screwed those people out of being successful, they’ve achieved at the expense of those other people.
One should then reply, how is that possible, given your claim liberals are smarter than conservatives?
The leaders are.
But the takers are not. They have been trained well. They are like the monkey in the cage that hits a button and the wire in his head stimulates him to orgasm. He’ll hit that button all day long, and starve to death because he doesn’t break from hitting that button, even for food and water.
That’s the takers description right there. They have absolutely no incentives to stop being takers. They are PROUD to be takers. Their motto is “FEED ME B1TCH!”
Time to starve off the takers.
The leaders are.
But the takers are not. They have been trained well. They are like the monkey in the cage that hits a button and the wire in his head stimulates him to orgasm. He’ll hit that button all day long, and starve to death because he doesn’t break from hitting that button, even for food and water.
That’s the takers description right there. They have absolutely no incentives to stop being takers. They are PROUD to be takers. Their motto is “FEED ME B1TCH!”
Time to starve off the takers.
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