Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

[Blaze Diem]

Haaaaaaaaaa. Can't wait for the freepie comments on the results of this study.

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... Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.

[catbyte]

1. "In other news, water is wet." :)

[Blaze Diem]

2. They needed a study to validate what we've always known

This should be fun

[WingDinger]

5. No, this is a revelation.

It is not our indoctrinating edumacation system turning out liberals. Liberals are just more capable of being educated.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. There were a couple of studies, including one in the 60s, that found that

self-reporting strength of faith correlated directly with incidence of mental illness. The stronger a person claimed their faith was, the more likely they suffered from some disorder.

I had scanned the studies in to ye olde IBM machine, and never bothered to copy it over from so many years ago.

[Blaze Diem]

11. Is it a reversable condition? Treatable?

Some conditions cannot be fixed.
Like 'stupidity'

[librechik]

3. low intelligence adults don't read the science articles on Yahoo

They're the ones screaming "Kenyan socialist" in the comments section.

[Zorra]

4. That's definitely a "no brainer".

[Tansy_Gold]

6. John Stuart Mill is borrowing my rubber stamp, and laughing in his grave

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

-- John Stuart Mill, in a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington (May 31, 1866); this seems to have become paraphrased as "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." which was a variant published in Quotations for Our Time (1978), edited by Laurence J. Peter.

[Blaze Diem]

8. Well stated..Take the Teabagger for example:

Their goddess Palin defines this statement

[zbdent]

8. Ignorance can be fixed. Stupidity is fatal ...

Choosing to remain ignorant is stupid.

Hence, the argument.

[libodem]

10. We never would have guessed

Thanks for the update.

[Blaze Diem]

12. Welcome. I read the replies to this article and aside from the liberal belly laughter

those on the other side of the aisle have only one defense. Blame the liberal biased study,
therefore proving even further the point of this article

[libodem]

13. Spot on!

[Aerows]

14. Is anyone surprised by this?

If they are, I also have a study that concludes that fire is hot.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

15. Duplicate Thread

Post just before this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002225033

[Blaze Diem]

17. Apologies to DU..appears we were busy on this post about the same time.

Guess that happens.

[jillan]

16. Yep - I WAS married to one of those people.

[Blaze Diem]

18. Poor thing. Even love & devotion wont enlighted some..I've tried also

with friends, family, & it becomes a futile effort in the end.
Hope you are with kinder wiser folk at this point

[IDemo]

19. See "reptilian cortex" n/t