Posted on 11/16/2014 9:02:43 PM PST by tcrlaf
According to a recent study out of Virginia Tech, a team of scientists have found that the way a person responds to disgusting images can reveal their political leanings.
Maggots, rotting carcasses, gross gunk in the kitchen sink all these were used in the research, and the results were pretty astonishing.
Disgusting images generate neural responses that are highly predictive of political orientation even when those neural responses dont correspond with an individuals conscious reaction to the images, said Read Montague, a Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute professor who led the study. Remarkably, we found that the brains response to a single disgusting image was enough to predict an individuals political ideology.
Participants in the study were shown images such as filthy toilets and rotting animal carcasses, mixed with both neutral and pleasant images like beautiful landscapes and babies.
After viewing the images, the subjects took part in a political ideology questionnaire, asking about how often they discuss politics and how they felt about topics such as church-state separation and gay marriage.
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I wonder if the upstanding folks of fb would ever give into their lefty ideology and artificially 'boost' a group to help promote their agendas?
I interpret this data (making the wild assumption that it is accurate) as saying that liberals have undesirable, non-survival mutations that cause them to be death-worshipping followers of Satan, sometimes unconsciously.
Yes - well said!
LOL. I’ll cast my lot with the great unwashed who actually know how to survive and thrive.
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