feh...
Posted on 02/22/2012 4:05:48 PM PST by tcrlaf
A new study bound to stir controversy found that people with a low I.Q. are drawn to prejudice, racism and a socially conservative political ideology.
The study was conducted by researchers at Brock University in Ontario and published in the journal Psychological Science.
The study's lead author, Dr. Gordon Hodson, told LiveScience that people with lower intelligence scores are attracted to the "structure and order" of these ideologies because they make it easier to comprehend a complicated world.
"Reality is complicated and messy," Dr. Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the study, told The Huffington Post. "Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies."
Nobody need accept the faulty premise of these crawling nazi insects, hurling out insults to make their pea-brains appear bigger than they are. Simply catch them in a dark parking lot, alone and watch these cowards piss in their pants.
The time for reasoned debate with these rats has long passed.
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Good list but you left out one of my all time favorite low IQ types, Dr. Thomas Sowell. If anyone wants to know my opinion on things I ask them if they are familiar with the views of Thomas Sowell. If they say yes I tell them that I go along with whatever he says because I don’t recall ever reading anything he has written with which I disagree in any important way and he says it in a better way than I do. If any liberal tells me that he thinks he is smarter than Sowell I will ask him if he also thinks he is taller than Robert Pershing Wadlow.
I’m disappointed, I thought your IQ was immeasurable. Next you will tell me that you need three bounds to leap a tall building and you can’t even outrun a BB.
Yeah only dumb people are able to overcome the neverending liberal brainwashing and propaganda in schools and the media, those that go along with what they are told are geniuses! All one has to do is compare the comments on conservative forums to those on liberal forums to see which side has the upper hand intellectually.
The study's lead author, Dr. Gordon Hodson, told LiveScience that people with lower intelligence scores are attracted to the "structure and order" of these ideologies because they make it easier to comprehend a complicated world. "Reality is complicated and messy," Dr. Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the study, told The Huffington Post.Gosh, it's almost as if it's an election year again.
Such blinding intellectual insight!
Explains totally the 2008 triumph of the classic deeply philosophic tour de force of "Change and Hope!"
< /sarc >
“So, dear Doctor, socialism, communism, and fascism are NOT simplifying ideologies that impose order and get rid of that ‘complicated, messy’ reality?”
Oh no. They are complex, nuanced systems, summarized below, that are almost like holding a mirror up to reality.
The Politician
1. I want power.
2. If I convince the people to give me more money and power, I will have more money and power to do stuff I want to do.
3. OK.
The People
1. Other people have more money than I do.
2. That politician promises if I give him more power he will get some of their money and give it to me.
3. OK.
Democrat National Socialism: Because they care...
I'd bet the ranch that (1) the author of this study had a preconceived notion as how he wished the results to come out and (2) the author of this study's political leanings trend toward the left.
Yes, the whole idea is to put the word "conservative" or "conservatism" into a stream or series with words having unquestionably negative connotations. It's merely a word association trick and it's part of the Left's standard effort at the brainwashing of the gullible.
I’d bet the ranch AND the cattle that since he already knew the results, he didn’t waste his time by actually *doing* the study.
Thanks for the ping!
The conclusions in the report actually show 0bama’s voting base. I see stupid people everywhere!
Intuitively, even counting the left wing elites in government and academia, I would say that the IQ of the opposition voter is on average higher than the Obama voter and that the IQ of the average American who calls himself "conservative" is higher than the average American who describes himself as "liberal." As Rush Limbaugh likes to say, it's a lot harder being a conservative because you have have to think more logically.
No problem! Let’s just set an IQ limit instead of an age limit for voting. The left will have nothing to worry about >:)
Great links. BTTT.
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