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Higher IQ linked to liberalism
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Higher IQ linked to liberalism
Anyone read this article?
LONDON, March 2 (UPI) -- More intelligent
children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals, a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science suggests.

http://news.aol.ca/article/liberals-and-...dy/784710/
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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
The article was written by liberal atheist scientists with an agenda. The same ones pushing evolution and climate change down our throats, I imagine.

In seriousness, this article greatly appeals to my confirmation bias; "I knew I was right" Wink

Big Grin
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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
(March 4, 2010 at 8:44 am)LukeMC Wrote: The article was written by liberal atheist scientists with an agenda. The same ones pushing evolution and climate change down our throats, I imagine.

In seriousness, this article greatly appeals to my confirmation bias; "I knew I was right" Wink

Big Grin

And in other news, dinosaurs wore saddles.
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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
http://atheistforums.org/thread-3062.html

Same study!

Way to go, Darwinian! Tongue
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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
Oops :S That's a bit like convergent evolution isn't it Tongue
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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
(March 4, 2010 at 8:35 am)Darwinian Wrote: Anyone read this article?
LONDON, March 2 (UPI) -- More intelligent
children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals, a researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science suggests.

http://news.aol.ca/article/liberals-and-...dy/784710/

how do they define liberal?
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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
As opposite to conservative apparently. It's a dodgy thing to define, seeing as my social views are very much "liberal" and my economic views are conservative. Usually the word "liberal" applies to social aspects, whereas in talking about economics, the term "left-wing" or "socialist" is used.
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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
I don't know about the article in the OP but I do know some conservatives who are as dumb as two bags of hair.
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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
I think its the other way around: Liberalism linked to high IQ, as there are more liberal smart people than there are smart liberals (percentage-wise).
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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RE: Higher IQ linked to liberalism
People learn by dividing things into catagories. Although in the real world, it is usually not that way. For instance, we learn colors and assign them names. In the real world when you look at the light spectrum that goes from ultraviolet to infrared, there are no lines of distinction to separate colors. They all blend.

Studies have been done on different cultures who learn their colors differently. They were asked to compare two colors: yellow and yellow-green, then rate them on a scale of 1-10 as to how different the colors were. People who saw them as the same color underrated their differences. People who saw them as different colors over rated their differences. Very few were able to rate them correctly.

This is the reason why we live in a polorized society. It is a natural function of the brain.

I would suggest that conservatives are more narrow in their catagories, making most issues black or white where liberals see more gray.
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