Posted on 03/20/2006 9:38:14 AM PST by Abathar
Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.
At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.
The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.
But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
and continue to be bullies to this day
If the study is suppose to have validity...
I'd like to know how the author accounts for Pelosi, Reid, Durban, Kennedy, and all the other Dem whiners and crybabies?
bump for later reading
That is my most favorite joke!! I've passed that to many a liberal! LOL!
The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be confident, resilient, self-reliant adults. It is the researchers' own bias and wishful thinking that leads them to believe that the definition of a "liberal" is a confident, resilient, self-reliant adult, when it is evident to everyone else that the liberal is a whining, insecure adult.
It is this very insecurity that explains why they are trying to justify themselves with this so-called scientific study. The qualities of "liberal" and "conservative" are never defined explicitly -- but implied from the liberal's own wishful thinking to regard themselves as possessing positive and healthful qualities -- while imputing negative and unhealthy attributes to those who don't see them that way.
Only liberals would think up a study like this -- to address their own appalling sense of inferiority -- which is not merely a complex but the real McCoy!
Talk about insecurity -- they wrote the book!
Obviously, people who dedicate and devote their entire lifetime to proving their own moral and intellectual superiority to everyone (anyone) else, doesn't have anything going for them.
It is obvious "liberals" dedicate their lifetimes doing.
Did, uh, this "unemployment" adversely affect your standard of living in any way?
Just curious...
CA....
No, it didn't. My husband's salary was going up, so getting laid off in Socialist Paradise didn't hurt us at all. It's just WRONG. Socialism is meant to fail. It can't go on for very long at a time.
I agree with this professor's comment. Also, posted in the story in the Toronto Star rag. Makes me embarrassed to be a Canadian. AU
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