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Old 09-13-2010, 09:00 AM
 
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" Liberalism may therefore be evolutionarily novel, and the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely than less intelligent individuals to espouse liberalism as a value.

Analyses of large representative samples, from both the United States and the United Kingdom, confirm this prediction. In both countries, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to be liberals than less intelligent children. For example, among the American sample, those who identify themselves as “very liberal” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 106.4, whereas those who identify themselves as “very conservative” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 94.8."

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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:04 AM
 
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That is totally laughable
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:05 AM
 
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Why are numbers only given for those in early adulthood?

Are 20 somethings opinions really who we should trust when it comes to politics? I am only 24 years old and I know I had ideals only a few years ago that proved to be absolutely stupid when I graduated college and got out into the real world. I would like to see the same study, but for all age ranges.
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:12 AM
 
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“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

- Winston Churchill
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:13 AM
 
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Liberals voted for 0bama, and they are all scratching their little wooden heads now, and wondering what the hell happened.
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Old 09-13-2010, 09:16 AM
 
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" Liberalism may therefore be evolutionarily novel, and the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely than less intelligent individuals to espouse liberalism as a value.

Analyses of large representative samples, from both the United States and the United Kingdom, confirm this prediction. In both countries, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to be liberals than less intelligent children. For example, among the American sample, those who identify themselves as “very liberal” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 106.4, whereas those who identify themselves as “very conservative” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 94.8."

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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...-conservatives
Republicans are more intelligent than democrats.

The Audacious Epigone: Politics and IQ; Conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans least intelligent

More importantly, we know that conservatives have more common sense than liberals. Keep in mind that Linus Pauling (Nobel Prize winner) had an IQ of about 100.
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Old 09-13-2010, 10:29 AM
 
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Republicans are more intelligent than democrats.

The Audacious Epigone: Politics and IQ; Conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans least intelligent

More importantly, we know that conservatives have more common sense than liberals. Keep in mind that Linus Pauling (Nobel Prize winner) had an IQ of about 100.
That's because common sense is free.

Is this some kinda inverse Jewish joke?
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Old 09-13-2010, 10:35 AM
 
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Default Liberals more Intelligent than Conservatives: Study Shows

In line with the subject line above. . .

Please explain Joe Biden to the masses.
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Old 09-13-2010, 11:26 AM
 
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This study should provide great comfort to the navel gazers of the Stuart Smalley party following the mid term elections. They'll need it when the dismantling of the Obama agenda starts in earnest in the next Congress. Bye bye ObamaCare!

'Well, at least we're smarter.' ROFLMFAO!
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Old 09-13-2010, 11:34 AM
 
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" Liberalism may therefore be evolutionarily novel, and the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely than less intelligent individuals to espouse liberalism as a value.

Analyses of large representative samples, from both the United States and the United Kingdom, confirm this prediction. In both countries, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to be liberals than less intelligent children. For example, among the American sample, those who identify themselves as “very liberal” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 106.4, whereas those who identify themselves as “very conservative” in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 94.8."

Read the entire article here,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives
Good post. A few months on C-D certainly validates which side exhibits clearer and more reasonable thinking.
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