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I don't think people should use this as a justification to attack conservatives. Fear can be a very useful emotion. It can prevent us from getting ourselves into bad situations. A healthy dose of fear is necessary in order to survive.
The truth is that we need both conservatives and liberals in order to have a healthy society. Without liberalism, nothing changes; without conservatism, nothing is preserved.
I must say that I find it very entertaining when you venture into areas of science!
I was able to find all of that because I went to the actual study.
Apparently you are unable to do so yourself.
And you are a conservative are you not?
I rest my case.
Then why would you post a link that doesn't contain ANY of the critical information? Why didn't you post the link that you used to go "to the actual study"?
If you post a link, get questioned, and then claim you actually looked elsewhere and the OTHER site contained the relevant information, that's either a pure cop out or an example of extremely unorganized thought process.
In your response, instead of just being insulting (which liberals often do instead of simply answering the question), why not address the problems I brought up? I guess everyone is supposed to assume that you looked at some other site and were happy with what you found. Yet you did not post the other link, so people could judge for themselves or offer comment.
Not way an intellectual would do either the original post, or the response to questions about methodology.
I rest my case.
(BTW, the link in the first line does NOT connect you to a site that explains ANY of the questions raised.)
Academic colleague down the hall from our lab who does linkedin/facebook data mining projects. Supplemented by my conference attendance (Comp Sci) and my ex-girlfriends' (Classics) conferences
Could be a right brain/left brain dominance thing. People (like me) who are right brain dominant tend to be artistic, musical, non mathmatecal. Maybe those traits correspond more with liberal ideology.
Switch them.
Right brain is for analytical function, whereas left is for artistic expression.
Then why would you post a link that doesn't contain ANY of the critical information? Why didn't you post the link that you used to go "to the actual study"?
If you post a link, get questioned, and then claim you actually looked elsewhere and the OTHER site contained the relevant information, that's either a pure cop out or an example of extremely unorganized thought process.
In your response, instead of just being insulting (which liberals often do instead of simply answering the question), why not address the problems I brought up? I guess everyone is supposed to assume that you looked at some other site and were happy with what you found. Yet you did not post the other link, so people could judge for themselves or offer comment.
Not way an intellectual would do either the original post, or the response to questions about methodology.
I rest my case.
(BTW, the link in the first line does NOT connect you to a site that explains ANY of the questions raised.)
It really doesn't matter because the characterization of the Amygdala as nothing but a "fear center" leaves out the other three F's at the minimum. Truth be told, the Amygdala plays a role in all situational awareness. The recognition of frightening faces and situations may be one of the most important function of the Amygdala from an evolutionary stand-point, but the same Amygdala also serves a critical function in all experienced based learning. Lose your Amygdala and you'll spend the rest of your life learning to tie your shoe laces and introducing yourself to family and friends. No doubt this is the reason liberals with their smaller Amygdalae go blank when conservatives explain we've already tried their stupid New Deal program and it didn't work, or when we cut taxes in the past, revenue increased.
Well, without a verifiable source it's an opinion, not a fact.
PS: mining linkedin/facebook for valid data:
The findings themselves cannot be published because it is too socially unacceptable for conferences like AAAI, IJCAI, and UAI. The people in question published on other data and offered to me the demographic data, which I cheerfully crunched on my own free time.
The study seems bogus to me. It does not indicate how the subjects were selected, what constituted a liberal vs. conservative individual (social/fiscal?). It's junk science and I would never submit a paper based on this loosey goosey "research" to any of our conferences.
You know the only piece of evidence is a "Blue/Red State" study.....but then go on to ask me for evidence? ...Then add the qualifier "American" as if I said that?
I don't have any evidence of "American" only studies. ...but then I never said I did.
The blue/red state study, with it's gaping flaws that anyone with high school statistics and half a brain could spot (helllllllo potential Simpson's paradox), is the only one *I* know of.
If it's the only one you know of as well, then when you said that, quote:
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Originally Posted by padcrasher
Self identified liberals score higher on IQ tests than these white, self identified conservatives as do Ashkenazi Jews, and Asians.
you were outright making up that comment out of thin air (at least the liberal/conservative part). This is very ironic because in that same post, you opened up complaining about other people making up facts out of thin air then you did so yourself (unless you aren't bright enough to spot the problem with the state data, in which case your posts are deliciously ironic in a different fashion).
And this is somewhat disappointing because, as entertaining as your hypocrisy is, I really was interested to see if you had a proper quantitative study backing up your point, because it's something I would be very interested in reading if it exists anywhere.
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