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Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives? - TIME
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So, are liberals smarter? Kanazawa quotes from two surveys that support the hypothesis that liberals are more intelligent. One is the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which is often called Add Health. The other is the General Social Survey (GSS). The Add Health study shows that the mean IQ of adolescents who identify themselves as "very liberal" is 106, compared with a mean IQ of 95 for those calling themselves "very conservative." The Add Health study is huge more than 20,000 kids and this difference is highly significant from a statistical point of view.
Read more: Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives? - TIME
<excerpt>
So, are liberals smarter? Kanazawa quotes from two surveys that support the hypothesis that liberals are more intelligent. One is the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which is often called Add Health. The other is the General Social Survey (GSS). The Add Health study shows that the mean IQ of adolescents who identify themselves as "very liberal" is 106, compared with a mean IQ of 95 for those calling themselves "very conservative." The Add Health study is huge more than 20,000 kids and this difference is highly significant from a statistical point of view.
Read more: Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives? - TIME