Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

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BYTEMITE

Monday, January 30, 2012 1:16 AM

I've debated at times whether the acronym should be GIFT or GIT.

On one hand, GIT kinda gets the idea across through the acronym. On the other hand, GIFT means "poison" in german.

GEEZER

Monday, January 30, 2012 1:59 AM

What's fun is to read some of the 33,000+ comments on this article.

BTW, should clarify that the 'conservatives' the article refers to are social, not fiscal, conservatives.

Also plenty of caveats in the article, such as:

"Hodson and Busseri's explanation of their findings is reasonable, Nosek said, but it is correlational. That means the researchers didn't conclusively prove that the low intelligence caused the later prejudice. To do that, you'd have to somehow randomly assign otherwise identical people to be smart or dumb, liberal or conservative. Those sorts of studies obviously aren't possible."

"Keep the Shiny side up"

1KIKI

Monday, January 30, 2012 2:00 AM

Oh BTW Geezer, since you've decided to throw out reason and throw in with the shit-spewing bunch, meet your new best and only friends. I hope you like the smell.

PIRATENEWS

Monday, January 30, 2012 2:10 AM

Yeah, blacks, hispanics and women would never vote for a politician who ended the IRS income tax, brought all our soldiers home ALIVE, and stopped paying taxdollars to genocide 50% of black babies.

SIGNYM

Monday, January 30, 2012 3:45 AM

What I find rather amusing are people who defend stupid, racist conservatives. 'Cause, hey, I didn't name names or point fingers, but peeps seem to pin the characterization on themselves.

RIONAEIRE

Monday, January 30, 2012 6:11 AM

There are some basic energies behind both philosophies. Basic here meaning simplistic and easy for dumb people to understand.

Conservative: This is right and that is wrong, if you do that then you're wrong, black and white, easy peasy.

Liberal: If it feels good and no one dies or ends up clearly traumatized from it then go for it, easy peasy.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

1KIKI

Monday, January 30, 2012 6:21 AM

"Liberal: If it feels good and no one dies or ends up clearly traumatized from it then go for it, easy peasy."

Those aren't liberals, they're cartoons of hippies from 35+ years ago.

Liberalism in the United States is a broad political philosophy centered on the unalienable rights of the individual. The fundamental liberal ideals of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion for all belief systems, and the separation of church and state, right to due process and equality under the law are widely accepted as a common foundation across the spectrum of liberal thought. The main focus of modern liberalism in the United States includes issues such as voting rights for all adult citizens, equal rights, protection of the environment, and the provision by the government of social services, such as: equal education opportunities, access to health care, transportation infrastructure, basic food for the hungry and basic shelter for the homeless.

SIGNYM

Monday, January 30, 2012 6:36 AM

Riona- you have a very strange idea of "liberals".

As it turns out, about 50% of the people in the USA don't have a strong moral or political compass, nor do they think that people need to agree on any moral code. Those people aren't "liberals" they're just morally lazy.

RIONAEIRE

Monday, January 30, 2012 7:09 AM

Keep in mind that I live in Portland.

I'm not thinking of hippies.

I was just demonstrating that both can be boiled down into basic, and not entirely correct, concepts that dumb people can universally understand.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

AURAPTOR

Monday, January 30, 2012 10:06 AM

This " study " is about as valid and telling as the view that thinking logically is some how tied to racism.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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