What do you know - Study says Liberals are SMARTER than Conservatives!

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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968042,00.html

The short answer: Kanazawa's paper shows that more intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more likely to grow into adults who voted for the Liberal Democrats, even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomics.

The Add Health study shows that the mean IQ of adolescents who identify themselves as "very liberal" is 106, compared with a mean IQ of 95 for those calling themselves "very conservative."

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Well what you know,

CK is the smartest person on JPP. I mean we all knew that already!
 
To bring balance to this discussion, the data also suggests that people with high IQs (whatever IQ is worth) are inclined to express themselves through leftist ideas and atheism in order to project their personal sense of intelligence.
 
:lol:

Can someone explain this article to me please? Maybe we can get that guy that thinks we have 57 states in the union. What was his name again?


Another article from the same author..


Low IQs are Africa's curse, says lecturer

The London School of Economics is embroiled in a row over academic freedom after one of its lecturers published a paper alleging that African states were poor and suffered chronic ill-health because their populations were less intelligent than people in richer countries.

Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist, is now accused of reviving the politics of eugenics by publishing the research which concludes that low IQ levels, rather than poverty and disease, are the reason why life expectancy is low and infant mortality high.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/nov/05/highereducation.research/print


This guy might be on to something, it would explain why blacks vote for democrats, too dumb to know any better.
 
The data Kanazawa cites does not really support that.

From the article...

So are liberals smarter? Kanazawa quotes from two surveys that support the hypothesis that liberals are more intelligent. One is the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which is often called Add Health. The other is the General Social Survey (GSS). The Add Health study shows that the mean IQ of adolescents who identify themselves as "very liberal" is 106, compared with a mean IQ of 95 for those calling themselves "very conservative." The Add Health study is huge — more than 20,000 kids — and this difference is highly statistically significant. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2009.)

But self-identification is often misleading; do kids really know what it means to be liberal? The GSS data are instructive here: Kanazawa found that more-intelligent GSS respondents (as measured by a quick but highly reliable synonym test) were less likely to agree that the government has a responsibility to reduce income and wealth differences. In other words, intelligent people might like to portray themselves as liberal. But in the end, they know that it's good to be the king.

The teenagers are self identifying on the IQ test. Self identifying is not always reliable especially for politics. In the GSS study the smart kids are opposed to welfare programs. So I don't see how he supports his conclusion.
 
Adam Weinberg said:
To bring balance to this discussion, the data also suggests that people with high IQs (whatever IQ is worth) are inclined to express themselves through leftist ideas and atheism in order to project their personal sense of intelligence.
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And atheists and leftists attained that reputation for intelligence that people want to project for a reason.
 
Adam Weinberg said:
To bring balance to this discussion, the data also suggests that people with high IQs (whatever IQ is worth) are inclined to express themselves through leftist ideas and atheism in order to project their personal sense of intelligence.
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And all the stupid kids incorrectly identified themselves.
 
The study failed to account for the RETARDED Liberals, they make up about 75% of all Liberals. The remaining 25% are the educated socialists who give the retards marching orders and peddle koolaid.
 
CanadianKid said:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968042,00.html

The short answer: Kanazawa's paper shows that more intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more likely to grow into adults who voted for the Liberal Democrats, even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomics.

The Add Health study shows that the mean IQ of adolescents who identify themselves as "very liberal" is 106, compared with a mean IQ of 95 for those calling themselves "very conservative."

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Well what you know,

CK is the smartest person on JPP. I mean we all knew that already!
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One would never know, just by the comments by the liberals on this board.
 
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