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Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?
TIME ^ | John Cloud

Posted on 08/27/2012 1:46:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Huskrrrr
That's great! Reminds me of a quote from the great Ronaldus Magnus: “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
21 posted on 08/27/2012 2:17:24 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?

Followed by studies titled:

Liberals Nicer Than Conservatives

Liberals More Popular Than Conservatives

Liberals Friendlier Than Conservatives

Soccer Moms wait wide-eyed for such infinitely redefinable wordcrap. Do have ANY idea how many decaf lattes Starbuck sells to these drooling idiots while they wrap their pinheads around these programming memes... er, cuttingly analytical insights?

22 posted on 08/27/2012 2:20:16 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

An IQ difference of (supposedly) 11 points between conservatives and liberals is "highly statistically significant."

An IQ difference of (supposedly) 15 to 18 points between blacks and whites is totally meaningless.

Although since most blacks are liberals this implies that the difference between white conservatives and liberals is even greater.

23 posted on 08/27/2012 2:21:05 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: SeekAndFind

Too many people confuse “intellectually evaluated” with “intellectually fashionable”.

Most liberals I know are reasonably conservative about things they know something about in detail (and that’s usually not political issues), but they espouse knee-jerk liberal attitudes on just about everything else because that’s what they think makes them look like smart people, or at least keeps them from looking like a bunch of yahoos.

The perfect example is global warming/climate change. No liberal I’ve ever questioned thoroughly knows a damn thing about the controversy at any level of scientific detail, but they all know they have to say that they’re opposed to CO2 emissions because that’s the “scientific consensus”.


24 posted on 08/27/2012 2:21:27 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: JaguarXKE

Even better!


25 posted on 08/27/2012 2:21:40 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: SeekAndFind

PhD programs do not graduate those whose arguments disagree with prevailing thought. To the extent that universities are dominated by leftist thought and practices, no other ideas can make it to the top.

In fact, competition is washed out because of its political leanings or the whim of various professors.


26 posted on 08/27/2012 2:22:52 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: SeekAndFind

48% pay no federal income tax. Ask yourself if these liberals are smart?


27 posted on 08/27/2012 2:31:37 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If libtards were smarter than Conservatives, you would not be working for that pos commie rag “time mag”.

LLS


28 posted on 08/27/2012 2:38:30 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Sarah speaking at the romney convention would be like Led Zeppelin opening for The Monkees)
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To: SeekAndFind

See my tagline.


29 posted on 08/27/2012 2:40:43 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: I still care

I think this explains zero’s liberalism. When he says ‘you didn’t build that’, he’s 100% correct, liberals don’t build anything, just ‘improve’ things. He doesn’t have the intellectual interest to understand real value created by real workers who produce something that someone else wants and will pay for, he’s ‘transcended’ that.

He has no understanding of the jungle because he’s never lived in it, just toured it via his commie sponsors, in expensive cars and planes.


30 posted on 08/27/2012 2:42:14 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: SeekAndFind

If liberals are supposedly more intelligent, then why are they more likely to be single as opposed to married, more likely to be on welfare, or other government assistance, more likely to be poor, more likely to commit crimes?

And why is it that every election liberals try to get as many ill informed and ignorant people to vote if their way is the way of the smart ones.

Sorry don’t buy it, I expect there are serious flaws in the study.


31 posted on 08/27/2012 2:42:22 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (whites are 8 times more likely to be victimized by black criminals than blacks by white criminals)
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“If liberals are supposedly more intelligent, then why are they more likely to be single as opposed to married, more likely to be on welfare, or other government assistance, more likely to be poor, more likely to commit crimes?”

To liberals, all those things are a sign of intelligence. Everyone else is stupid with low IQs.


32 posted on 08/27/2012 2:54:00 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: SeekAndFind

Have you ever seen liberals comment on articles? They can barely grasp the English language.


33 posted on 08/27/2012 2:58:55 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: SeekAndFind

“He argues that smarter people are more willing to espouse “evolutionarily novel” values — that is, values that did not exist in our ancestral environment, including weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers (liberalism, as Kanazawa defines it), which never would have occurred to us back when we had to hunt to feed our own clan and our only real technology was fire.”

YEAH THAT’S WHY ALL THE LIBERALS STARTED HOSPITALS AND UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY. Pushed for valuing women more than just an appendage or property.

Oh wait, IT’S THOSE STUPID IGNORANT CHRISTIANS THAT DID ALL THAT.

Libtardism reaching pandemic proportions today.


34 posted on 08/27/2012 3:01:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Even a cursory look at DU will amply demonstrate that, compared to FR conservatives, liberals are sorely deficient in vocabulary, dependent as they are on the F*** and S*** words.


35 posted on 08/27/2012 3:04:19 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: Neoliberalnot

In a way they are. They are sustaining themselves like leeches off of poor saps who keep working.

Go Galt as best you can. Starve the leeches.

Ideally we could really probably take the whole thing down. Work hard a few years, save up enough not to work 2-3 years, be fired from work, collect unemployment and other benefits as long as possible. Overwhelm the system until it collapses.

If all makers stopped generating taxable income we could shut down the entitlement system. When mostly everyone is taking and nobody’s making, the benefits, they must stop flowing. What’s easier to cut, benefits from losers that don’t work and want to mooch off soceity, or military defense and the genuinely needy like the elderly and truly disabled. Moochers get cut off.

Makers going galt can form their own networks over craigslist to barter for equivalent trades and equivalent services (ie helping out a friend). Can find useful free stuff out there. Easy peasy.


36 posted on 08/27/2012 3:08:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Hodar

By Einstein’s definition they are insane.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26032.html


37 posted on 08/27/2012 3:08:49 PM PDT by willyd
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To: Proudcongal

They would reply it’s because evil conservatives have screwed those people out of being successful, they’ve achieved at the expense of those other people.

One should then reply, how is that possible, given your claim liberals are smarter than conservatives?


38 posted on 08/27/2012 3:12:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: willyd

The leaders are.

But the takers are not. They have been trained well. They are like the monkey in the cage that hits a button and the wire in his head stimulates him to orgasm. He’ll hit that button all day long, and starve to death because he doesn’t break from hitting that button, even for food and water.

That’s the takers description right there. They have absolutely no incentives to stop being takers. They are PROUD to be takers. Their motto is “FEED ME B1TCH!”

Time to starve off the takers.


39 posted on 08/27/2012 3:19:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: willyd

The leaders are.

But the takers are not. They have been trained well. They are like the monkey in the cage that hits a button and the wire in his head stimulates him to orgasm. He’ll hit that button all day long, and starve to death because he doesn’t break from hitting that button, even for food and water.

That’s the takers description right there. They have absolutely no incentives to stop being takers. They are PROUD to be takers. Their motto is “FEED ME B1TCH!”

Time to starve off the takers.


40 posted on 08/27/2012 3:19:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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