Are liberal children more intelligent?

[Chris]

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.

Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist, says "evolutionarily novel" preferences and values are those that humans are not biologically designed to have and our ancestors probably did not possess. In contrast, those that our ancestors had for millions of years are "evolutionarily familiar."

Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal -- caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers one has never meet or interacted with -- is evolutionarily novel.

Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health support Kanazawa's hypothesis. Young adults who subjectively identify themselves as "very liberal" have an average IQ of 106 during adolescence while those who identify themselves as "very conservative" have an average IQ of 95 during adolescence, Kanazawa says.

Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have an average IQ of 103 during adolescence, while those who identify themselves as "very religious" have an average IQ of 97 during adolescence, Kanazawa says.

Higher IQ linked to liberalism, atheism - UPI.com

 

[tyroneweaver]

one of the leaders of the tea party here in burley Idaho son is the valedictorian of his class
and his next door cousin won the car tech contest in boise which awards a 44000 dollar schollie . He will be competing in Minnesota at the national contest.

sorta blows that pommies theory out the window

 

[Clementine]

I guess you better define liberal. Socialism, which has failed so many times in the past, doesn't work and any intelligent person knows that eventually you run out of other peoples' money.

 

[SniperFire]

The majority of Barack Obama's most loyal demographic does not even graduate from High School.

Fail.

 

[Listening]

What is the point of this thread ?

That a group of academics (you know...those scientists who don't know much about the real world) who tend to be liberal....reach a self-serving conclusion ?

Oh yes...they use data.

You know...data that can be interpreted a million ways depending on the way you frame the question.

What is really sick is that Chris somehow sees this as making himself smarter when the cons on this board hand him his ass time after time after time after time.

Unbelievable.

And what does "very religous" mean ? Or "not at all religious" ? The board moron strikes again.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Liberal Children at play

 

[uscitizen]

Are liberal children more intelligent?

Yes.
However blindly partisan democrats are not.
They are just as stupid as blindly partisan republicans.

 

[Listening]

The majority of Barack Obama's most loyal demographic does not even graduate from High School.

Fail.

If it comes from

Franco
TruthSplatters
Chrissy

It's a Fail right out of the blocks.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

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.

Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist, says "evolutionarily novel" preferences and values are those that humans are not biologically designed to have and our ancestors probably did not possess. In contrast, those that our ancestors had for millions of years are "evolutionarily familiar."

Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal -- caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers one has never meet or interacted with -- is evolutionarily novel.

Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health support Kanazawa's hypothesis. Young adults who subjectively identify themselves as "very liberal" have an average IQ of 106 during adolescence while those who identify themselves as "very conservative" have an average IQ of 95 during adolescence, Kanazawa says.

Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have an average IQ of 103 during adolescence, while those who identify themselves as "very religious" have an average IQ of 97 during adolescence, Kanazawa says.

Higher IQ linked to liberalism, atheism - UPI.com

I love vodoo correlations.

 

[uscitizen]

LIberal does not necessarially mean democrat just as conservative does not always mean republican.

I am a conservative liberal but I think both partys suffer from extreme cranial anal itis.

 

[Mad Scientist]

What is the point of this thread?

Chis saw his chance to be all snobby with us "peasants".

 

[Peach]

The majority of Barack Obama's most loyal demographic does not even graduate from High School.

Fail.

Actually, the REALITY is that Obama got the votes of well educated Americans, AND the poor. This study, along with numerous other "studies" cited here, proves NOTHING. Unless the children tested are followed for the next 30-50 YEARS, nothing can be drawn about future political beliefs.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

There is a huge amount of info out there that indicates that liberals are more open minded and certainly tend to be better educated - for the simple reason that they value education.

The right itself is causing this. Its the right who says they don't want "elitist" educations, don't want schools, don't want well educated or well paid teachers.

The biggest problem with the uneducated right is that they not only vote, they have kids. They want kids in the US to have inferior educations. Its the right who wants our kids to cleans schools and pick produce just as its the right who want other countries to be better educated than our own kids. (I recently posted a link to an article stating that China graduates more science majors than the US graduates all kids. Typically, the rw's poo-poo'ed it.)

The rw's can change this IF THEY WANT TO.

Read the posts here ... They don't want to. They actually take great pride in not being university or college educated and want no part of that "elitist" stuff.

 

[uscitizen]

The majority of Barack Obama's most loyal demographic does not even graduate from High School.

Fail.

Actually, the REALITY is that Obama got the votes of well educated Americans, AND the poor. This study, along with numerous other "studies" cited here, proves NOTHING. Unless the children tested are followed for the next 30-50 YEARS, nothing can be drawn about future political beliefs.

You mean like that study that followed children for decades and found that whiney children grew up to be republicans?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The majority of Barack Obama's most loyal demographic does not even graduate from High School.

Fail.

This is an excellent example.

This particular poster delights in posting lies like this. Ask him/her/it for proof and he/she/it just posts another nasty bit of name calling.

Clueless. Absolutely clueless.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The majority of Barack Obama's most loyal demographic does not even graduate from High School.

Fail.

Actually, the REALITY is that Obama got the votes of well educated Americans, AND the poor. This study, along with numerous other "studies" cited here, proves NOTHING. Unless the children tested are followed for the next 30-50 YEARS, nothing can be drawn about future political beliefs.

You mean like that study that followed children for decades and found that whiney children grew up to be republicans?

Yeah, the researchers did their field work right here on this forum!

 

[Listening]

There is a huge amount of info out there that indicates that liberals are more open minded and certainly tend to be better educated - for the simple reason that they value education.

So I am sure you will have no problem posting that information for us to read.

Of course, you had better make sure there is a clear defintion of liberal.

Anyone with an "open mind" knows it is very difficult to hang that label or the conservative label on anyone with any degree of consistency. But, I am sure your huge info is very good about laying that foundation.

If it isn't then your "huge amount of information" is meaningless and your claim only shows that your reasoning skills are limited.

 

[Missourian]

We can settle this pretty quickly.

Chris, are your parents liberal?

 

[Listening]

The majority of Barack Obama's most loyal demographic does not even graduate from High School.

Fail.

Actually, the REALITY is that Obama got the votes of well educated Americans, AND the poor. This study, along with numerous other "studies" cited here, proves NOTHING. Unless the children tested are followed for the next 30-50 YEARS, nothing can be drawn about future political beliefs.

You mean like that study that followed children for decades and found that whiney children grew up to be republicans?

I think you have that confused with the study that shows anyone that has almost 40,000 posts has no life.

 

[SniperFire]

The majority of Barack Obama's most loyal demographic does not even graduate from High School.

Fail.

Actually, the REALITY is that Obama got the votes of well educated Americans, AND the poor.

The stupidest people in America are most likely to vote for Obama.

Deal with it.