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Science says liberals, not conservatives, are psychotic
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Posted on 06/10/2016 7:16:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians.

A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with “psychoticism” now says it got it wrong. Very wrong.

The American Journal of Political Science published a correction this year saying that the 2012 paper has “an error” — and that liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism.

“The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed,” the journal said in the startling correction.

“The descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: conservatives; dempsychosis; leftistpsychosis; liberalpsychosis; liberals; psychosis; psychotic; science
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Part of the confusion can be how the words ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ are interpreted.


21 posted on 06/10/2016 8:08:00 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
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To: avenir

He’s not “looney”, he’s evil....Evil proliferates by having the ability to appear tolerable.


22 posted on 06/10/2016 8:10:19 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: ChicagoConservative27
liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism.

Childhood traumas and abuse cause developmental deficits that lead to childish fantasies, trances, obsessions, paranoia, transference neuroses, delusions, phobias, irrational drives, repressions, and denials of reality, which when combined, end up as libtardism.

23 posted on 06/10/2016 8:11:18 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is common for studies to have a cover sheet that is a complete lie about the study’s results. Some politically motivated “researcher” (aka commie) writes up “findings” that support his agenda. The doctor who made claims that people who have a gun in the home are 30 times more likely to be killed than those who don’t later admitted that he had lied about the findings. Most people accept the cover sheet and don’t look at the actual study itself and don’t verify the data.

The editor of the Lancet wrote that 50% of medical studies are bogus. This was a stunning admission. States pass laws based on these fraudulent studies.

Kinsey’s study is probably one of the most evil examples of pseudoscientific fraud, having hired child molesters to do “research”. It wasn’t for decades until someone actually reviewed Kinsey’s study and revealed it as a fraud. But look at the fallout from Kinsey’s lies. Rape penalties were lowered in all 50 States with Kinsey testifying and using his “study” as “proof” that promiscuity and perversion were “normal”. We now have a multi-billion dollar “treatment” fraud empire built on this base of lies.

We are aware of the massive climate pseudoscientific fraud on the FR and discuss it regularly. It’s time to take up some of these other scams that are used to rape the taxpayers for millions and harm unknown numbers of innocents as a result.


24 posted on 06/10/2016 8:11:24 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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To: Maverick68

True.


25 posted on 06/10/2016 8:13:19 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

HA!

100% backwards and they published it...

wait- maybe it was an experiment in itself to prove their point

I bet this info will not be spread NEARLY as far and wide as the previous one.


26 posted on 06/10/2016 8:16:24 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: IYAS9YAS

“2. Keeps performing same tasks expecting different outcomes.

To be fair, this became normal with Windows.”

Now, that’s funny.


27 posted on 06/10/2016 8:22:22 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

[ lady who lives next door has cats. Her whole family is big union dems who love hillary. ]

toxoplasmosis - the liberal disease


28 posted on 06/10/2016 8:31:48 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: SpaceBar

My wife and I have had cats for over 20 years. Neither one of us has turned liberal yet, but we do bow to our feline masters.


29 posted on 06/10/2016 8:37:21 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“I don’t know where it happened. All I know is it happened,” he told Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks corrections in academic papers. “It’s our fault for not figuring it out before.”

When ‘researchers’ have opinions they are looking to back up with ‘science’, then stuff like this happens.

dumba$$.


30 posted on 06/10/2016 8:38:01 AM PDT by mad puppy (E PLURIBUS UNUM)
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To: No_More_Harkin
Feel free to add.

This covers all of them which we've been posting for a couple of years now: Swordmaker's and (my girlfriend) Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new IDC-10 addenda:

321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.

31 posted on 06/10/2016 8:58:32 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Psychotic academics.


32 posted on 06/10/2016 9:08:22 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, the cats aren’t the cause. I’ve got cats.

The only thing Hitlery has in common with cats is that she’ll eat you if she’s a big cat and you’re not.


33 posted on 06/10/2016 9:16:23 AM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I pay no attention to social research anyway. It’s almost always wrong and IS always subjective.


34 posted on 06/10/2016 9:18:13 AM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Something my grandfather said of liberals and (ALL Democrats) every time we saw him.

Beginning at least in 1955; in my memory.

35 posted on 06/10/2016 9:35:21 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: lonevoice

ping!


36 posted on 06/10/2016 9:51:19 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here’s a piece on the long awaited retraction by the New York Times... the one that will NEVER happen.. Maureen Dowd - will you write this one up?

‘Epic Correction of the Decade [liberals, not conservatives, tend toward psychosis]’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3438748/posts


37 posted on 06/10/2016 10:05:01 AM PDT by GOPJ ("DHS Quietly Moving, Releasing Vanloads of Illegal Aliens Away from Border"-where's ABC, CBS, CNN???)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Poli-sci, sociology and psychology departments are crammed with liberals.

They come up with the result they want.


38 posted on 06/10/2016 10:08:41 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: mjp
Childhood traumas and abuse cause developmental deficits that lead to childish fantasies, trances, obsessions, paranoia, transference neuroses, delusions, phobias, irrational drives, repressions, and denials of reality, which when combined, end up as libtardism.

And neurotic helicopter parenting by micromanaging soccer moms on antidepressants expressing constant cognitive dissonance to a child while demanding it be accepted as normalcy, IS childhood trauma to an extremely severe degree.

39 posted on 06/10/2016 10:20:54 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Homer1

That was the title of a Michael Savage book.


40 posted on 06/10/2016 10:38:00 AM PDT by tbw2
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