Self identified "liberals and athiests" have higher IQs than conservative/religious...

[old mark]

CNN article from February on study done on US adults...Liberals ARE smarter, more likely to be concerned about the welfare of strangers than conservatives, more likely to be better partners in monogamous relationships...


Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence/index.html


I just found this when I was looking ofr something else....

mark

[mnhtnbb]

1. Well, that explains it.

[TiredOldMan]

2. Confirming what we already knew.

[Parker CA]

3. Duh.

[Hawkowl]

4. I want to see an EMPATHY IQ

That is what the conservatives are really missing. Intelligence is not all that helpful if you are a sociopathic, greedy, narcissistic, sadist. In fact we are probably lucky that most conservatives aren't that bright.

[MattBaggins]

5. Breaking News: Water is wet

[LeftishBrit]

6. As a British left-wing atheist, I still find Kanazawa quite dodgy.

As I stated on an earlier thread, he is the sort of rather simplistic evolutionary psychologist who thinks that every individual item of behaviour must be genetically controlled and have directly evolved for some specific purpose.

This can lead, and does in his case, to very reactionary views that traditional social mores are 'human nature' and cannot or should not be modified. For example, sex roles. He has called feminism 'evil':

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200908/why-modern-feminism-is-illogical-unnecessary-and-evi


His views on race are equally nasty:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BHupmtXJ5AcJ:www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/nov/05/highereducation


Also see his views on war, hate, and Ann Coulter:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200803/why-we-are-losing-war.

Even when he comes up with a result that we happen to like, I think we need to distrust him.

[Ernesto]

7. Told ya so............. nt

[Quantess]

8. Yeah, but intelligence is so "elitist".

[old mark]

14. ...especially to them that ain't got much of it......nt

[arbusto_baboso]

9. One big problem with that study....

is the insistence that "having one partner has always been advantageous to women".

Read the book Sperm Wars, and you will forever change your view about human promiscuity. It's genetically inherent to BOTH genders. After all, who are men being promiscuous WITH? It ain't all with just a few women after all...

[Javaman]

10. Yay!!! stroke my ego more!!!

:rofl:

[Name removed]

11. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Festivito]

12. If you do not find more independent thinking in a group of independent thinkers ...

... you're probably the one bringing down the average.

Pick any group of independent thinkers, then check their independent thinking, you'll find a higher IQ, and the usual number of morons as well.

[Marr]

13. Intelligent people seem more likely to be liberal and/or atheist.

That's a long way from "liberals are smarter". There are plenty of stupid people who call themselves liberals or atheists. There are very intelligent conservatives, too. I think I've met a few myself.

One big difference I do note, at least in this country, is that the right-wing seems to promote stupidity and ignorance as a virtue. Intelligent conservatives seem comfortable with the notion that some people should exploit others, and the ones I've known all either considered themselves to be in the "exploiter" category, or expected to be there fairly soon. Maybe that's why the Conservative movement is comfortable promoting ignorance-- I don't know.

[Odin2005]

15. K&R