Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives (Kitten Chow, have at it folks)

Psychology Today ^ | 3/22/10 | Satoshi Kanazawa

[MayorKoch]

It is difficult to define a whole school of political ideology precisely, but one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the contemporary United States as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others. In the modern political and economic context, this willingness usually translates into paying higher proportions of individual incomes in taxes toward the government and its social welfare programs. Liberals usually support such social welfare programs and higher taxes to finance them, and conservatives usually oppose them.

Defined as such, liberalism is evolutionarily novel. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be altruistic toward their genetic kin, their friends and allies, and members of their deme (a group of intermarrying individuals) or ethnic group. They are not designed to be altruistic toward an indefinite number of complete strangers whom they are not likely ever to meet or interact with. This is largely because our ancestors lived in a small band of 50-150 genetically related individuals, and large cities and nations with thousands and millions of people are themselves evolutionarily novel...

Incidentally, this finding substantiates one of the persistent complaints among conservatives. Conservatives often complain that liberals control the media or the show business or the academia or some other social institutions. The Hypothesis explains why conservatives are correct in their complaints. Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions. They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.

[Vendome]

You might wanna engage when you post.

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[Vendome]

I wanna kiss her....

Purdy lips....

[RedMDer]

And with Joe Biden alone, the gaffes would fill volumes! LOL!

[Chode]

100%

[RedMDer]

[stephenjohnbanker]

Biden is the most remarkable story of all.

100% fool : )

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[stephenjohnbanker]

I don’t believe her degree any more than Obama at Columbia and HLS : )

[Crazieman]

You misspelled beeper.

[Servant of the Cross]

oooooopppps .....

It was part of the trick question ... the correct answer would have included "beeber" (or is that Bieber?) ...

[Chode]

scary, isn't it...

[Delta 21]

The first 5 minutes of that is the best part.

[jonascord]

You've got it bass ackwards. I would be hard pressed to cite two more glaring examples of the Dunning–Kruger effect than Hitlery and The Dictator.

In addition, these two criminals could not function in their criminal enterprize without massive cover from Leftist media and fawning hordes of Progressive congenitally Stupid.

It's been my conviction, for years, that the Left is one side of the IQ Bell Curve. I'll leave to you to decide which side.

[Delta 21]

Get Some !

[jonascord]

Don’t you have the occasional urge to kick a metaphorical puppy? I can’t think of ANY more richly deserving target than a progressive.

[Delta 21]

Pretty much every authentic conservative I know would be in the upper 90-95 percentile on that curve.

That leaves, like, the rest of the Left side.

[SolidRedState]

I am stealing that!

[Delta 21]

Almost forgot.

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you to death !

[Delta 21]

Try it with sound !

[Delta 21]

200.