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So, liberals are smarter than conservatives according to that study. Now, that should produce some interesting discussion.
How about it, are liberals smarter?
I was smart enough not to vote for Bush even once.
So, liberals are smarter than conservatives according to that study. Now, that should produce some interesting discussion.
How about it, are liberals smarter?
Dude, you totally fell for it. Correlation is not causation.
The article says that intelligent people are likely to buck the trend, ie, be liberal. Doesn't say that B implies A.
I was smart enough not to vote for Bush even once.
So...were you stupid enough to vote for the current dumb-ass in the WH???
If liberals are so smart, how come they fell for the 'hope and change' shit? Was it cuz it was catchy?
☭proletarian☭;2040980 said:Liberals and atheists smarter? Intelligent people have values novel in human evolutionary history, study findsMore intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds....
An earlier study by Kanazawa found that more intelligent individuals were more nocturnal, waking up and staying up later than less intelligent individuals. Because our ancestors lacked artificial light, they tended to wake up shortly before dawn and go to sleep shortly after dusk. Being nocturnal is evolutionarily novel.
In the current study, 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 they never meet or interact with, is evolutionarily novel. So more intelligent children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals.
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add 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.
Similarly, religion is a byproduct of humans' tendency to perceive agency and intention as causes of events, to see "the hands of God" at work behind otherwise natural phenomena. "Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid," says Kanazawa. This innate bias toward paranoia served humans well when self-preservation and protection of their families and clans depended on extreme vigilance to all potential dangers. "So, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to go against their natural evolutionary tendency to believe in God, and they become atheists."
So, liberals are smarter than conservatives according to that study. Now, that should produce some interesting discussion.
How about it, are liberals smarter?
Dude, you totally fell for it. Correlation is not causation.
The article says that intelligent people are likely to buck the trend, ie, be liberal. Doesn't say that B implies A.