Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

[cory777]

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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[Systematic Chaos]

1. Which helps explain something:

Namely, that I've forgotten more than an entire "cave" of little conservative troglodytes has ever known! Yay!!

[grasswire]

4. oddly, they are proud of ignorance

some kind of a badge for them

[CanonRay]

2. Maybe it should be low IQ

linked to conservative beliefs and all else follows?

[Doctor_J]

5. that's the root problem

not all cons are dumb, but almost all dumb people are cons.

[Shagman]

3. we shouldn't be surprised

I've said for years that conservatives/xenophobes are less evolved. They receive a belief system without question, and throughout life they accept what fits into the system and ignore everything else. They can't do any serious thinking when they take so much for granted. Thus they are easily manipulated.

[Lil Missy]

6. another one for the no shit sherlock file. n/t