Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism

[whitehall]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
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Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

Are modern progs completely ignorant of history or were they born yesterday? If you checked the wallets of KKK members during the 60's you would find without, exaggeration, 100% democrat party registration cards. Democrats voted against civil rights legislation. Some liberal progressive movers and shakers in the democrat party are unabashed former domestic terrorists. Political progressives (and/or the completely insane) are responsible for every mass shooting in the U.S. in modern times. FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and joked about it. Foul mouthed LBJ freely used the "N" word in public. Now the ignorant racist progs latch on to some second rate professor's theory because it's easier than thinking. Almost every post by is a left winger (including this one) is a word by word duplication of some leftie's opinion on a blog site. Why do you think progs are at war with information and want to shut down conservative sources of information like Rush Limbaugh and Fox? The answer is simple. Progs do not have the intellectual ability to argue and they want to keep it simple by shutting down opinions that they disagree with. Black people should be insulted at the notion that obtaining a photo I.D. is a racial issue but racist left wingers get away with it.

 

[Contumacious]

........liberalism, progressivism, parasitism, welfarism, warfarism.

Try even BIGGER fonts.....maybe that will help.

........liberalism, progressivism, parasitism, welfarism, warfarism.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

IQ is not the major issue to me but the lack of commonsense is something that is disturbing when it come to Racist Bigots and Social Conservatives because they lack it so badly!

 

[eagle1462010]

I also heard that progs have a lack of common sense..................which appears in their actions and words........

Kinda a mental disorder.........well...........not kinda.

 

[Asclepias]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
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Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

Are modern progs completely ignorant of history or were they born yesterday? If you checked the wallets of KKK members during the 60's you would find without, exaggeration, 100% democrat party registration cards. Democrats voted against civil rights legislation. Some liberal progressive movers and shakers in the democrat party are unabashed former domestic terrorists. Political progressives (and/or the completely insane) are responsible for every mass shooting in the U.S. in modern times. FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and joked about it. Foul mouthed LBJ freely used the "N" word in public. Now the ignorant racist progs latch on to some second rate professor's theory because it's easier than thinking. Almost every post by is a left winger (including this one) is a word by word duplication of some leftie's opinion on a blog site. Why do you think progs are at war with information and want to shut down conservative sources of information like Rush Limbaugh and Fox? The answer is simple. Progs do not have the intellectual ability to argue and they want to keep it simple by shutting down opinions that they disagree with. Black people should be insulted at the notion that obtaining a photo I.D. is a racial issue but racist left wingers get away with it.

Yeah but those Dems were conservatives. Youre talking about parties instead of ideologies.

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[nat4900]

That's Quebec, idiot. The Normans were French lol...

Maybe there should be a study on conservatives' grasp of simple geography???

 

[francoHFW]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

Are modern progs completely ignorant of history or were they born yesterday? If you checked the wallets of KKK members during the 60's you would find without, exaggeration, 100% democrat party registration cards. Democrats voted against civil rights legislation. Some liberal progressive movers and shakers in the democrat party are unabashed former domestic terrorists. Political progressives (and/or the completely insane) are responsible for every mass shooting in the U.S. in modern times. FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and joked about it. Foul mouthed LBJ freely used the "N" word in public. Now the ignorant racist progs latch on to some second rate professor's theory because it's easier than thinking. Almost every post by is a left winger (including this one) is a word by word duplication of some leftie's opinion on a blog site. Why do you think progs are at war with information and want to shut down conservative sources of information like Rush Limbaugh and Fox? The answer is simple. Progs do not have the intellectual ability to argue and they want to keep it simple by shutting down opinions that they disagree with. Black people should be insulted at the notion that obtaining a photo I.D. is a racial issue but racist left wingers get away with it.

And 20 years later the whole KKK were GOP, like now. Idiot.

 

[nat4900]

If you checked the wallets of KKK members during the 60's you would find without, exaggeration, 100% democrat party registration cards. Democrats voted against civil rights legislation.

Well, SOUTHERN democrats voted against civil rights legislation.....Consider that southerners hold a grudge for several generations and that most became "democrats" because they were still pissed off at republican Abe Lincoln.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

I see prejudiced inner city folks here in Chicago all the time.
They drop out of school at a frighteningly high rate. They aren't very bright.
I didn't realize they were conservatives.

I didnt realize dropping out of school had anything to do with intelligence. I think someone mentioned you guys never quite grasp what you are talking about.

It's not the smart ones dropping out.

 

[1stRambo]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

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[Asclepias]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

I see prejudiced inner city folks here in Chicago all the time.
They drop out of school at a frighteningly high rate. They aren't very bright.
I didn't realize they were conservatives.

I didnt realize dropping out of school had anything to do with intelligence. I think someone mentioned you guys never quite grasp what you are talking about.

It's not the smart ones dropping out.

Do you have proof or is this a deflection?

15 year old drop out and founder of Tumblr..David Karp

 

[Wake]

ITT I'm seeing partisan liberals and progressives touting the idea that people with low IQ are conservative.

That's as bad and dumb as having partisan conservatives saying the same thing about liberals and liberalism. My eye ain't blind when I see the partisan idiots on the right calling liberalism a mental disorder.

Know what the real problem is? It's partisanship of any color and stripe.

 

[bripat9643]

I've noticed this aswell, many on the ultra right lack a basic understanding of anything they're against.

I've noticed that your I.Q. is unusually low, so what does that prove about socialists?

 

[Dragonlady]

That study was done in Ontario...which was settled by the French. There hasn't been a Frenchman who wasn't a Pinhead and a Pussy since the Normans conquered England and moved there to get away from the Pinheads and Pussys.

Give me 48 hours and I will get you a report out of Mississippi that says just the opposite of what the one in Ontario said...and it will be just as reliable.

Ontario was settled by the English. Quebec was settled by the French.

But nice try.

 

[occupied]

The truth of this study is evident in just how much conservatives despise and demonize intellectuals with their fancy words, complicated ideas and daily bathing.

 

[Asclepias]

ITT I'm seeing partisan liberals and progressives touting the idea that people with low IQ are conservative.

That's as bad and dumb as having partisan conservatives saying the same thing about liberals and liberalism. My eye ain't blind when I see the partisan idiots on the right calling liberalism a mental disorder.

Know what the real problem is? It's partisanship of any color and stripe.

In fairness everyone is speaking about the extreme right.

 

[Wake]

IQ is not the major issue to me but the lack of commonsense is something that is disturbing when it come to Racist Bigots and Social Conservatives because they lack it so badly!

The exact same thing can also be said of their counterparts.

 

[Muhammed]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives

Do you think Negroes are mostly conservative?

 

[Wake]

ITT I'm seeing partisan liberals and progressives touting the idea that people with low IQ are conservative.

That's as bad and dumb as having partisan conservatives saying the same thing about liberals and liberalism. My eye ain't blind when I see the partisan idiots on the right calling liberalism a mental disorder.

Know what the real problem is? It's partisanship of any color and stripe.

In fairness everyone is speaking about the extreme right.

The extreme Left is equally bad.

...

...or do you suppose it must be genius?

What do you honestly think? Step back from what you believe for a moment, and level with me. Maybe, maybe, it's the extremes that are the issue.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

I see prejudiced inner city folks here in Chicago all the time.
They drop out of school at a frighteningly high rate. They aren't very bright.
I didn't realize they were conservatives.

I didnt realize dropping out of school had anything to do with intelligence. I think someone mentioned you guys never quite grasp what you are talking about.

It's not the smart ones dropping out.

Do you have proof or is this a deflection?

You want proof of the inner-city drop out rate in Chicago?