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2010-02-28 Science & Technology

Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 If you're credulous enough to believe this cr@p, you must be a Liberal.

Posted by Bulldog 2010-02-28 03:00|| 2010-02-28 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Mee no get it.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-28 03:58|| 2010-02-28 03:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Riiiiiiight. Let me guess, the author of this "study" happens to be liberal, atheistic and IHHO has a high IQ?

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-02-28 05:01|| 2010-02-28 05:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Why Are Liberals in a Slump? For One Thing, They Have Fewer Kids

Posted by Anguth Barnsmell2985 2010-02-28 06:20|| 2010-02-28 06:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Read the article if you wish to be confronted with shocking academic blindness. Amongst other howlers, it claims that religion does not help people survive, it helps them to 'be paranoid.'

As has been discussed here, liberalism (and atheism to a lesser extent) is shallow social signaling for the 'smarty-pants' set. The study didn't ask about predilections to authoritarianism or tyranny, which is a big moral problem in those circles, IMO.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-02-28 06:51|| 2010-02-28 06:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd say it's more correlated to low testosterone.

Posted by ed 2010-02-28 07:20|| 2010-02-28 07:20|| Front Page Top

#7 "I am too smarter than you! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!"

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-02-28 10:40|| 2010-02-28 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Satoshi Kanazawa, PhD (born November 16, 1962) is an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics. His research uses evolutionary psychology to analyze social sciences such as sociology, economics, and anthropology.[1] In 2003, in an article in the Journal of Research in Personality, he showed that scientists generally made their biggest discovery before their mid-30s, and compared this productivity curve to that of criminals.[2]
Loon.
Commenting on the War on Terror, Kanazawa claimed that "there is one resource that our enemies have in abundance but we dont: hate. Hatred of enemies has always been a proximate emotional motive for war throughout human evolutionary history." He then offers the following thought experiment: "Imagine that, on September 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers came down, the President of the United States was not George W. Bush, but Ann Coulter. What would have happened then? On September 12, President Coulter would have ordered the US military forces to drop 35 nuclear bombs throughout the Middle East, killing all of our actual and potential enemy combatants, and their wives and children. On September 13, the war would have been over and won, without a single American life lost. Yes, we need a woman in the White House, but not the one whos running (Hillary Clinton, ed.)".[
Lunatic.

Posted by Bobby 2010-02-28 11:24|| 2010-02-28 11:24|| Front Page Top

#9 This should come as no suprise. When you survey NYC, Berkley, Hollywood, and Miami, you will find most of the smart conservative God fearing Americans have left. Leaving the Hispanic immagrants, who are mostly conservative left for the survey. This is just more bullshit from people who think they are better that the rest.

This great nation was not built on Athiest homosexual liberial ideals. This great nation was built on God fearing Conservative principles.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-02-28 11:30|| 2010-02-28 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 This great nation was not built on Athiest homosexual liberial ideals.

But it may be destroyed by them....

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-28 12:26|| 2010-02-28 12:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Thats funny, cuz 9/10 liberal athiest homosexuals I came across were more concerned about finding ironic t-shirts and trendy coffee bars, then say...the implications of publishing foux studies which justify the intellectual difficiencies of those opposed to the self centered hubristic implications of naming dissenters incapable of rational thought.
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..wait a second this sounds familiar.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-02-28 12:45|| 2010-02-28 12:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Nice quote there, Bobby. It seems that Dr Satoshi is a feminist in the mode of Keith Olbermann. I'm sure he gets a lot of chix with that attitude...

Here's Andrew Klavan's take on liberals, for the counterargument...

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-02-28 12:45|| 2010-02-28 12:45|| Front Page Top

#13 The rather obvious link between "Liberalism" and narcissism is the study to go for.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-02-28 15:31|| 2010-02-28 15:31|| Front Page Top

#14 The flaw (if you like) in this study is self identified liberal/conservative.

I'd say I was 'liberal', even though by most peoples standards I'm (very) right wing on economic issues and things like the WoT. I'm liberal on personal freedom issues.

I'd also like to see the IQ distribution. Averages can be very misleading. For example the average person has one testicle and one breast.

Posted by phil_b 2010-02-28 16:57|| 2010-02-28 16:57|| Front Page Top

#15 What's important is the age distirbution

The study looked at a large sample from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), which began with adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-95 school year. The participants were interviewed as 18- to 28-year-olds from 2001 to 2002. The study also looked at the General Social Survey, another cross-national data collection source.

Anyone not a liberal at 20 is without a heart and anyone not a conservative at 40 is without a brain. Oh, and the 20 year olds think they're immortal.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-28 17:03|| 2010-02-28 17:03|| Front Page Top

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