Low intelligence and “low effort thinking” are strongly linked to right-wing attitudes

Discussion in 'Politics' started by exGOPer, Dec 14, 2017.

  1. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Why do you make this so easy for me? Where is even the debate, arguing over the most basic stuff that one can look up under a second is getting boring.

    Does Lower Cognitive Ability Predict Greater Prejudice?

    Kristof Dhont, Gordon Hodson
    First Published December 16, 2014

    We discuss how the effects of lower cognitive ability on prejudice are explained (i.e., mediated) by greater endorsement of right-wing socially conservative attitudes.

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963721414549750
     
    #11     Dec 15, 2017
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Have you seen all the low income Democrats in the cities who voted for Hillary.
     
    #12     Dec 15, 2017
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  3. polaris

    polaris


    https://www.thenewamerican.com/worl...g-muslims-in-swedish-feminists-are-pushed-out

    A real measure of stupidity: Damned! How come all the super intelligent people reside on the left?
     
    #13     Dec 15, 2017
  4. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    [​IMG]
     
    #14     Dec 15, 2017
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  5. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Very definition of fake news

    Translate from the original Swedish paper

    "She has lived in Tensta for over 30 years and many times described how religious fundamentalists gained more space in the area and how women's place in public space decreased.In order to stop this development she herself was in female fiction groups but now she has finished it."

    The feminist actually went to the conservative areas to promote 'modernism' to these dumb Cons, of course it didn't go well

    https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/kanda-feminister-lamnar-orten

    Tip - Avoid reading these dumb right wing anti-immigrant crap, most of the times they are fake because their publishers are dumb xenophobes and 'low intelligence' as mentioned in the study I posted.
     
    #15     Dec 15, 2017
  6. UsualName

    UsualName

    There are low income and low intelligence voters on both sides. I actually think that is healthy. We shouldn’t spurn any voter. I know some really smart people who don’t vote and that’s just dumb.
     
    #16     Dec 15, 2017
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  7. exGOPer

    exGOPer

     
    #17     Dec 15, 2017
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  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Here is the defining paper on the subject that references all the previous studies and goes through all the correct math.

    Here is the Conclusion for the paper.

    This should lead one to expect that Republicans are less
    intelligent than Democrats. However, looking at data from
    the General Social Survey, I find that Republicans have
    slightly higher verbal intelligence than Democrats. In partic-
    ular, individuals who identify as Republican have slightly
    higher verbal intelligence than those who identify as
    Democrat (2–5 IQ points), and individuals who supported
    the Republican Party in elections have slightly higher verbal
    intelligence than those who supported the Democratic Party
    (2 IQ points).


    https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2014-carl.pdf

    The study has a good reference list to all previous studies on the subject (of course 2014 & previous).

    An associated article with other references -- http://reason.com/archives/2014/06/13/are-conservatives-dumber-than-liberals


    The sad truth that all of these studies from shrinks, with no supporting data or scientific method, who all claim people of one political persuasion are dumber or more prejudice than ones on the other party are pure nonsense.
     
    #18     Dec 15, 2017
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    And this list has already been demonstrated to be complete bullshiat.

    Why don't you post the list of the states which spend the most money on Welfare, Section 8, Food stamp, and Medicaid payments per capita.
     
    #19     Dec 15, 2017
  10. polaris

    polaris

    Hahaha! Brilliant. As her world becomes smaller, I wonder where she'll end up next? Typical spineless lefty...
     
    #20     Dec 15, 2017