New Study ("no gentle way to put it"): Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

[kpete]

There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.

The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. 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.

"Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood," he said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html

[HopeHoops]

1. It was ever thus.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Freepers Heads Explode in - 3 - 2 - 1

[hootinholler]

11. You're assuming they will notice.

[loyalsister]

3. In other news

Stereotyping conservative as being somehow mentally "defective" damages the cause of mental health advocates, as liberals devalue people who they should support and be allied with.

[tabatha]

4. That is why more scientists are liberal than conservative.

[demosincebirth]

5. I've known that for years. It's funny, studies like these are usually forty years behind the times.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Here's the offcial FR response thread.

Enjoy.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2838337/posts


Distilled, combined response-

"I've gotta IQ of 250 and I have 4 doctorates and 30 patents.....and I'm a dye-hard conservative. Haha. Guess he's a commie lib Obama racist and he was smoking crack!"

[appleannie1]

8. A genius is 130 or above. 250 would be the lunatic range.

[libodem]

13. Can't be

I scored 128 at one time and I'm so full of squirrel shit I could explode. Gotta be 250.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

A person with an IQ of 250 would never say, "I've gotta...", He or she would know enough to use proper English. Nor, would they claim that they're "dye-hard". I guess this jackass prefers powdered Rit clothes dye to the liquid form? And, anyone with 4 doctorates is probably busy putting them to use, rather than spending their time posting bullshit on some web site.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

12. Quadra Doc obviously left out a decimal point. nt

[appleannie1]

7. Something we have known is now official

[bemildred]

9. Obvious.

Smarter people see the world in more complicated ways, because the world really is very, very complicated.

"There is an easy answer for every question, neat, simple, and wrong."