lower cognitive abilities predict racism, conservatism

NoDrama

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At least AC has stopped replying to my every post 20 times a night. Now 100% of my alerts are from some unclebuck dude.

Racist!
 

abandonconflict

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oh look, NoDrama is up before 7 thinking about me.

You know, when you get up early in the morning and click reply on four or five of my posts in different threads, we're bound to have an exchange and the result will be notifications. Furthermore, when nobody clicks like on your posts, you're bound to have nothing in addition to several alerts from the people who you woke up thinking about.

Oh just to make you feel special,

@NoDrama
 

Rob Roy

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Are libertarians more intelligent than conservatives and liberals?
05/15/2014 Brandon Christensen Decentralization, Federalism, Liberty, Political Thought,Taxesconservatives, intelligence, Jonathan Haidt, liberals, Libertarians, moral psychology
The short answer is “yes.”

Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published a paper in 2012 with three colleagues exploring libertarian morality. Dr Haidt is well-known for his work on studying morality among conservatives and liberals in the US, but has become increasingly interested in libertarians (or, at least, he can no longer ignore us).

Among the factors that Haidt and his colleagues explore and compare with liberals and conservatives is intelligence, or at least one common measure of it:

The Cognitive Reflection Task is a set of 3 logic questions that have correct and intuitive answers. Correct answers on these questions is said not just to measure intelligence, but also to measure a person’s ability to suppress an intuitive response in service of the cognitive reasoning required to solve these problems.

[…]

Results.
Table 3 shows that libertarians find the correct answers to these questions at a slightly higher rate than liberals and moderately higher rate compared to conservatives (also see Figure 4).

Interpretation.
The cognitive reflection task provides a behavioral validation of the hypothesis that libertarians have a more reasoned cognitive style. In our dataset, this measure inter-correlates with both Need for Cognition […] and Baron-Cohen Systemizer […] scores, with libertarians scoring higher than both liberals and conservatives on all three measures. Taken together, a convergent picture of the rational cognitive style of libertarians emerges.

Although the Cognitive Reflection Task is just one test among many that attempts to measure intelligence, and although I am not a big believer that intelligence tests are any good at detecting intelligence (they are, however, great for analyzing structural issues within a society or across different societies), it’s hard to argue with the results: Libertarians score higher on intelligence tests than either liberals or conservatives. Here is the paper. I’d be very interested in reading through more literature that deals with this, but libertarians are new to a lot of scholars (which is why Haidt’s “common-sense” approach is being considered groundbreaking for including libertarians).

You don’t really need to read the paper though. Dr Amburgey, the house liberal of this blog, explains well why liberals tend to score slightly lower on intelligence tests than libertarians. Here, for example, is Dr Amburgey trying to tell me that the CIA is not really arming rebels in Syria if it goes through proxies like Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It’s an intelligent response, to be sure, but a libertarian – slightly more superior in his cognitive abilities, according to science – knows better.
 

UncleBuck

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Are libertarians more intelligent than conservatives and liberals?
05/15/2014 Brandon Christensen Decentralization, Federalism, Liberty, Political Thought,Taxesconservatives, intelligence, Jonathan Haidt, liberals, Libertarians, moral psychology
The short answer is “yes.”
only according to the interpretation of a biased retard writing an article to make other biased retards like you feel all sparkly and happy.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042366

Summary

Political and social psychologists often study ideology on a unidimensional liberal-conservative spectrum, but the real world is clearly more complex. As psychologists advance in studying the personality traits associated with liberalism and conservatism, our findings confirm the value of this approach and extend its reach by describing a heretofore-neglected yet politically important group – libertarians. Libertarians have a unique moral-psychological profile, endorsing the principle of liberty as an end and devaluing many of the moral concerns typically endorsed by liberals or conservatives. Although causal conclusions remain beyond our current reach, our findings indicate a robust relationship between libertarian morality, a dispositional lack of emotionality, and a preference for weaker, less-binding social relationships. These findings are consistent with previous research on the dispositional origins of moral judgment. By focusing on one understudied ideological group, the findings provide further evidence concerning the closely intertwined nature of personality, values, and political ideology.





this is why you should cite the study rather than some libertarian retard's spin, robrot. you dishonest ;little fuckrat.
 

Rob Roy

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only according to the interpretation of a biased retard writing an article to make other biased retards like you feel all sparkly and happy.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042366

Summary

Political and social psychologists often study ideology on a unidimensional liberal-conservative spectrum, but the real world is clearly more complex. As psychologists advance in studying the personality traits associated with liberalism and conservatism, our findings confirm the value of this approach and extend its reach by describing a heretofore-neglected yet politically important group – libertarians. Libertarians have a unique moral-psychological profile, endorsing the principle of liberty as an end and devaluing many of the moral concerns typically endorsed by liberals or conservatives. Although causal conclusions remain beyond our current reach, our findings indicate a robust relationship between libertarian morality, a dispositional lack of emotionality, and a preference for weaker, less-binding social relationships. These findings are consistent with previous research on the dispositional origins of moral judgment. By focusing on one understudied ideological group, the findings provide further evidence concerning the closely intertwined nature of personality, values, and political ideology.





this is why you should cite the study rather than some libertarian retard's spin, robrot. you dishonest ;little fuckrat.

Please post more scenarios where you posit something, then claim you will leave the site forever if X happens. Those always give me a tingle down my leg. Thank you Sir.
 

UncleBuck

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Please post more scenarios where you posit something, then claim you will leave the site forever if X happens. Those always give me a tingle down my leg. Thank you Sir.
i'm sorry you're too retarded to interpret the findings of the study, most conservatives like you are indeed too retarded to do so.

why?

because conservatives like you have lower cognitive abilities (and greater tendencies towards racism).
 

cc2012

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SOOooo uncleBuck, AC, see4 can Post what they like, shit,dicks...you name it... No problems..Admin biased to say the least!


The above Picture is a fake, made up(before the Racists go crying to Potroast) Mr I use Linux-See4 seems to think you need skills to use Photo Shop(by way See4, We use Gimp in Linux) this again is Not a Real Post...never was

atb

Have a Great Day
 

abandonconflict

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SOOooo uncleBuck, AC, see4 can Post what they like, shit,dicks...you name it... No problems..Admin biased to say the least!


The above Picture is a fake, made up(before the Racists go crying to Potroast) Mr I use Linux-See4 seems to think you need skills to use Photo Shop(by way See4, We use Gimp in Linux) this again is Not a Real Post...never was

atb

Have a Great Day
You seem really upset. Look, it's just science, don't let it ruin your day, it's not like it's illegal to be a dumb racist.
 
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