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CNN: Liberals and Atheists Have Higher IQs
NewsBusters ^ | 02/28/2010 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 02/28/2010 7:30:42 AM PST by kingattax

"Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds."

So began an article published at CNN.com Friday guaranteed to anger conservatives from coast to coast.

The piece continued, "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."

Folks are warned about proceeding further, for the content might be really offensive to some (h/tips to NB readers Stan and Chesley):

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


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KEYWORDS: condescendingliberal; iq
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To: grjr21

I think I like this guy.


61 posted on 02/28/2010 8:31:35 AM PST by Wildbill22
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To: Jim Noble
For decades, my tree hugging, atheist brother thought that he was way smarter than his older sister. But recently I was able to prove him wrong to the point that he was forced to concede to the family that I was way smarter than him. Funny how after a night from hell in ER,(when your mother's life is on the line), it can change one's perspective.
62 posted on 02/28/2010 8:32:29 AM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing, Freeper)
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To: achilles2000

>> DOES ANYBODY READ?

It also says they “had” higher IQs.


63 posted on 02/28/2010 8:33:08 AM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: kingattax

IQ only takes one so far. There is a more important ingredient that Liberal / Leftists lack:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1166067/posts?page=61#61


64 posted on 02/28/2010 8:33:27 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Sowell's book, Intellectuals and Society, eviscerates the fantasies that uphold leftist thought)
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To: kingattax

“The study looked at a large sample from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), which began with adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-95 school year. The participants were interviewed as 18- to 28-year-olds from 2001 to 2002.”

Here is an exerpt from a previous article that was left out. They basically only looked at college age kids. How many of us had liberal tendencies at that age? Probably most of us! These worms left this information out.


65 posted on 02/28/2010 8:34:07 AM PST by marstegreg
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To: kingattax

66 posted on 02/28/2010 8:35:16 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met had “high I.Q.s”.

Smile when you say that, pard....

67 posted on 02/28/2010 8:37:28 AM PST by Jim Noble (Hu's the communist?)
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To: kingattax

BS these people are Idiots they create nothing and have a track record of repeating failure after Failure just how is that intelligent? A Dam cockroach learns to move or get stepped on.


68 posted on 02/28/2010 9:04:40 AM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: clamper1797

How do you like Mensa? I’m thinking of taking the test. Do you find it fun and stimulating or full of pointy-headed egomaniacs?


69 posted on 02/28/2010 9:11:01 AM PST by FelixFelicis
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To: driftless2
And that Thomas Aquinas,what a Dunce.
70 posted on 02/28/2010 9:12:01 AM PST by ABN 505
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To: kingattax

This doesn’t surprise me. They are constantly telling us so, after all.


71 posted on 02/28/2010 9:13:55 AM PST by Antoninus (Vote Mitt Romney in 2012 -- We need an even bigger fraud in DC than Obama.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

And when they go to meet their maker, then they will realize how dumb they were.


72 posted on 02/28/2010 9:14:04 AM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: kingattax

I hope this CNN report brings some comfort to the 300-400 ABC newsroom staff that will soon be cut loose.


73 posted on 02/28/2010 9:14:57 AM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: kingattax

If liberal academia paid for this study, why is anyone surprised at the result?


74 posted on 02/28/2010 9:16:29 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: kingattax

So the question is: No One over X IQ believes in God?


75 posted on 02/28/2010 9:26:57 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: bitterohiogunclinger
“Liberals do not prepare for danger, they whine and cry and insist that danger does not exist,...”

Which comports nicely with my idea the liberalism is parasitic, that is it cannot build or maintain anything.

76 posted on 02/28/2010 9:30:44 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: kingattax
High intelligence is not always an indicator of wisdom. For a high IQ wise man's view of the matter (Thomas Sowell's), go to this thread:

SOWELL ON INTELLECTUALS

77 posted on 02/28/2010 9:34:41 AM PST by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: achilles2000

Sometimes I feel like spouting off nonsense before reading or listening. Could I be a closet Liberal?


78 posted on 02/28/2010 9:42:23 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: kingattax

Higher IQ’s have been proven to NOT provide a direct correlation with either more knowledge or better sense, which require both character and focus of effort, no matter the IQ.

Many with high IQ’s are simply intellectually lazy. It’s like having a big powerful V8 engine and fueling it with very low octane fuel.

Which is why so many “big IQs” remain comfortably (lazily) seated in the intellectual bubble, intellectually lazy environment of America’s academic institutions, where, in order to survive and “excel”, the highest requirement is a leftists political bias.


79 posted on 02/28/2010 9:48:58 AM PST by Wuli
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To: kingattax
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa

what other results would you expect from a evolutionary psychologist?

80 posted on 02/28/2010 10:02:08 AM PST by mjp (pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, independence, limited government, capitalism})
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