Posted on 02/26/2010 2:39:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds. Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.
The IQ differences, while statistically significant, are not stunning -- on the order of 6 to 11 points -- and the data should not be used to stereotype or make assumptions about people, experts say. But they show how certain patterns of identifying with particular ideologies develop, and how some people's behaviors come to be. The reasoning is that sexual exclusivity in men, liberalism and atheism all go against what would be expected given humans' evolutionary past. In other words, none of these traits would have benefited our early human ancestors, but higher intelligence may be associated with them.
"The adoption of some evolutionarily novel ideas makes some sense in terms of moving the species forward," said George Washington University leadership professor James Bailey, who was not involved in the study. "It also makes perfect sense that more intelligent people -- people with, sort of, more intellectual firepower -- are likely to be the ones to do that."
Bailey also said that these preferences may stem from a desire to show superiority or elitism, which also has to do with IQ. In fact, aligning oneself with "unconventional" philosophies such as liberalism or atheism may be "ways to communicate to everyone that you're pretty smart," he said.
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Probably a lot of trolls in this survey.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God”.
You can be plenty smart yet stupid. Witness the number of liberals who STILL think that socialism is better than capitalism despite the fact that socialism has FAILED MISERABLY everywhere it has been tried.
What they fail too tell you, is that it was the same woman.
Elizabeth Landau believes in Global Warming too. Look at her recent article on Feb 20th, 2010.
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/tag/elizabeth-landau-cnncom-writerproducer/
Liberalism/Atheism = Mental Disorder
There's a lot to consider first, the Lefty really likes to blather on about their means and ways, so I think that would be more likely to be drawn to this. And how are 'they' actually measuring IQ?
then there's the problem that some smarter folks believe that it their place to tell others that they perceive to be of less intelligence (everyone else) how to live. <-- I hate that.
What a pathetic load of excrement.
The pseudoscience that is contemporary psychology has long ago sold out to the left wing.
oh and also, I’m drunk
Is the definition of extrapolate; A man who fails to bring a divorced hooker too orgasm
A liberal study on a liberal IQ test. Wonder who the test subjects were - college students? Urban dwellers? Hmmm.
Are they friends with the same “scientists” with the hockey stick graph on warming? Sure sounds like the same kind of dribble. Generalizing is never a good thing to do. Besides, from what I saw at the healthcare “debate’ yesterday this theory is seriously flawed.
Absolutely! They might be book smart, but they don't have a lick of common sense. I bet they flunk the EQ1 tests!
“...on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs.”
Ok. So why are liberals so frigging stupid?
I tell my kids to check their math answers against common sense. Same goes for these studies. Guess these guys didn’t do that.
Certainly this is true and there is no bias in this scientific study............
For the libs....the term WOMAN also is inclusive for men who they have had casual sex with .
The IQ test ads 5 points to your score if you say there’s no god, another 5 points if you say you’re liberal, and subtracts 1 point for every woman who has willingly had sex with you.
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