Higher IQ linked to liberalism

[Darwinian]

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/

[LukeMC]

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"

[tavarish]

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"

And in other news, dinosaurs wore saddles.

[Eilonnwy]

http://atheistforums.org/thread-3062.html

Same study!

Way to go, Darwinian!

[Darwinian]

Oops :S That's a bit like convergent evolution isn't it

[Frank]

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?

[Tiberius]

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.

[Minimalist]

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.

[theblindferrengi]

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).

[LEDO]

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.