Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism

[Muhammed]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
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Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. 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."

Are modern progs completely ignorant of history or were they born yesterday? If you checked the wallets of KKK members during the 60's you would find without, exaggeration, 100% democrat party registration cards. Democrats voted against civil rights legislation. Some liberal progressive movers and shakers in the democrat party are unabashed former domestic terrorists. Political progressives (and/or the completely insane) are responsible for every mass shooting in the U.S. in modern times. FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and joked about it. Foul mouthed LBJ freely used the "N" word in public. Now the ignorant racist progs latch on to some second rate professor's theory because it's easier than thinking. Almost every post by is a left winger (including this one) is a word by word duplication of some leftie's opinion on a blog site. Why do you think progs are at war with information and want to shut down conservative sources of information like Rush Limbaugh and Fox? The answer is simple. Progs do not have the intellectual ability to argue and they want to keep it simple by shutting down opinions that they disagree with. Black people should be insulted at the notion that obtaining a photo I.D. is a racial issue but racist left wingers get away with it.

Yeah but those Dems were conservatives. Youre talking about parties instead of ideologies.

Jefferson Davis

1st President of the Confederate States
Term of office February 18, 1861 – May 10, 1865
Preceded by None (Creation)
Succeeded by None (Dissolution)
Date of birth June 3, 1808
Place of birth Christian County, Kentucky
Date of death December 6, 1889
Place of death New Orleans, Louisiana
Spouse Sarah Knox Taylor (1st wife)
Varina Howell (2nd wife)
Political party Conservative (Southern) Democrat

LPOS. There was no such party.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Only liberals equate intellectual or cognitive capacities based on consensus with their ideological viewpoints. Geez.

Don't you think calling conservatives stupid is rather...unintelligent?

 

[S.J.]

If racism is the yardstick with which to measure intelligence then blacks must be really stupid people because they're the most racist group in the country. And instead of pointing fingers at conservatism, they should be pointing the finger at the party who gave us the KKK, Jim Crowe, and Bob Byrd. That would be the Democratic Party.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

That's Quebec, idiot. The Normans were French lol...

Maybe there should be a study on conservatives' grasp of simple geography???

Ontario was actually settled by the French first and parts were annex by Quebec at one time. So it has English, Scottish, French and Native influence.

" A French explorer Étienne Brûlé explored part of the area in 1610–12.[2] The English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay in 1611 and claimed the area for England, but Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615 and French missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes, forging alliances in particular with the Huron people. Permanent French settlement was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois five leagues (based in New York State), who were allied with the British. By the early 1650s, using both British and Dutch arms, they had succeeded in pushing other related Iroquoian speaking peoples, the Petun and Neutral Nation out of or to the fringes of territorial southern Ontario.[3] "

Link:

History of Ontario - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

My family is from Ontario and was one of the biggest Scottish families in the region and shared a town in Ontario with the Campbell Clan.

 

[Asclepias]

ITT I'm seeing partisan liberals and progressives touting the idea that people with low IQ are conservative.

That's as bad and dumb as having partisan conservatives saying the same thing about liberals and liberalism. My eye ain't blind when I see the partisan idiots on the right calling liberalism a mental disorder.

Know what the real problem is? It's partisanship of any color and stripe.

In fairness everyone is speaking about the extreme right.

The extreme Left is equally bad.

...

...or do you suppose it must be genius?

What do you honestly think? Step back from what you believe for a moment, and level with me. Maybe, maybe, it's the extremes that are the issue.

Inherently I think extreme left is more intelligent. It takes intelligence to step out from your comfort zone. They may be kooks and weirdos but I have yet to meet one that was not intelligent. I cant say the same thing about some of the mouth breathing conservatives I have met.

 

[Asclepias]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. 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."

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

I see prejudiced inner city folks here in Chicago all the time.
They drop out of school at a frighteningly high rate. They aren't very bright.
I didn't realize they were conservatives.

I didnt realize dropping out of school had anything to do with intelligence. I think someone mentioned you guys never quite grasp what you are talking about.

It's not the smart ones dropping out.

Do you have proof or is this a deflection?

You want proof of the inner-city drop out rate in Chicago?

No. I said prove its not the smart ones dropping out. Are you having a hard time understanding the english language?

 

[Wake]

You know what's a smart thing to do?

Stop using absolutes. Start qualifying your words.

Makes life easier, and you're wrong less often.

 

[nat4900]

Do you think Negroes are mostly conservative?

Try just a bit harder to cover that red neck of yours.

 

[sealybobo]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. 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."

On Leave It to Beaver you know who was the Republican? Eddie Haskell and Larry Mondello

 

[Wake]

Inherently I think extreme left is more intelligent. It takes intelligence to step out from your comfort zone. They may be kooks and weirdos but I have yet to meet one that was not intelligent. I cant say the same thing about some of the mouth breathing conservatives I have met.

Do we really want to jump down this rabbit-hole?

 

[Socialist]

I've noticed this aswell, many on the ultra right lack a basic understanding of anything they're against.

I've noticed that your I.Q. is unusually low, so what does that prove about socialists?

What do you base this off of? I can adequately defend myself with factual evidence, you are the one trying to claim the WHO is a marxist organization, when you don't even know what marxism is, let alone socialism. Grow up.

 

[Asclepias]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. 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."

Are modern progs completely ignorant of history or were they born yesterday? If you checked the wallets of KKK members during the 60's you would find without, exaggeration, 100% democrat party registration cards. Democrats voted against civil rights legislation. Some liberal progressive movers and shakers in the democrat party are unabashed former domestic terrorists. Political progressives (and/or the completely insane) are responsible for every mass shooting in the U.S. in modern times. FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and joked about it. Foul mouthed LBJ freely used the "N" word in public. Now the ignorant racist progs latch on to some second rate professor's theory because it's easier than thinking. Almost every post by is a left winger (including this one) is a word by word duplication of some leftie's opinion on a blog site. Why do you think progs are at war with information and want to shut down conservative sources of information like Rush Limbaugh and Fox? The answer is simple. Progs do not have the intellectual ability to argue and they want to keep it simple by shutting down opinions that they disagree with. Black people should be insulted at the notion that obtaining a photo I.D. is a racial issue but racist left wingers get away with it.

Yeah but those Dems were conservatives. Youre talking about parties instead of ideologies.

Jefferson Davis

1st President of the Confederate States
Term of office February 18, 1861 – May 10, 1865
Preceded by None (Creation)
Succeeded by None (Dissolution)
Date of birth June 3, 1808
Place of birth Christian County, Kentucky
Date of death December 6, 1889
Place of death New Orleans, Louisiana
Spouse Sarah Knox Taylor (1st wife)
Varina Howell (2nd wife)
Political party Conservative (Southern) Democrat

LPOS. There was no such party.

Democratic party has been in existences for centuries. This is why people think cons are stupid. You guys actually think the Dems were always liberal and the Reps were conservative? It was the other way around during those times.

 

[Muhammed]

Do you think Negroes are mostly conservative?

Try just a bit harder to cover that red neck of yours.

Cower and feel my whip.

You are anecdotal evidence that African Americans have low IQs.

 

[Asclepias]

Inherently I think extreme left is more intelligent. It takes intelligence to step out from your comfort zone. They may be kooks and weirdos but I have yet to meet one that was not intelligent. I cant say the same thing about some of the mouth breathing conservatives I have met.

Do we really want to jump down this rabbit-hole?

I dont see it as a rabbit hole nor a jump. What do you have in mind?

 

[bripat9643]

I've noticed this aswell, many on the ultra right lack a basic understanding of anything they're against.

I've noticed that your I.Q. is unusually low, so what does that prove about socialists?

What do you base this off of? I can adequately defend myself with factual evidence, you are the one trying to claim the WHO is a marxist organization, when you don't even know what marxism is, let alone socialism. Grow up.

I base it on the riduculous arguments you post to this forum and all the pathetic Marxist propaganda. Only someone who is I.Q. challenged would do such things.

 

[Muhammed]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. 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."

Are modern progs completely ignorant of history or were they born yesterday? If you checked the wallets of KKK members during the 60's you would find without, exaggeration, 100% democrat party registration cards. Democrats voted against civil rights legislation. Some liberal progressive movers and shakers in the democrat party are unabashed former domestic terrorists. Political progressives (and/or the completely insane) are responsible for every mass shooting in the U.S. in modern times. FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and joked about it. Foul mouthed LBJ freely used the "N" word in public. Now the ignorant racist progs latch on to some second rate professor's theory because it's easier than thinking. Almost every post by is a left winger (including this one) is a word by word duplication of some leftie's opinion on a blog site. Why do you think progs are at war with information and want to shut down conservative sources of information like Rush Limbaugh and Fox? The answer is simple. Progs do not have the intellectual ability to argue and they want to keep it simple by shutting down opinions that they disagree with. Black people should be insulted at the notion that obtaining a photo I.D. is a racial issue but racist left wingers get away with it.

Yeah but those Dems were conservatives. Youre talking about parties instead of ideologies.

Jefferson Davis

1st President of the Confederate States
Term of office February 18, 1861 – May 10, 1865
Preceded by None (Creation)
Succeeded by None (Dissolution)
Date of birth June 3, 1808
Place of birth Christian County, Kentucky
Date of death December 6, 1889
Place of death New Orleans, Louisiana
Spouse Sarah Knox Taylor (1st wife)
Varina Howell (2nd wife)
Political party Conservative (Southern) Democrat

LPOS. There was no such party.

Democratic party has been in existences for centuries. This is why people think cons are stupid. You guys actually think the Dems were always liberal and the Reps were conservative. It was the other way around during those times.

I think you are full of shit.

 

[Asclepias]

In light of the right wingers' anger in the SCOTUS' recent decisions, here's a possible explanation. NOTE: I DO NOT believe that all right wingers have low IQs, but I DO believe that most people with low IQs tend to be ultra conservatives.
___________________________________________________________________

Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes. The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

I.Q., a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists. Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study's lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.

Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added.

Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments. "Reality is complicated and messy. 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."

Are modern progs completely ignorant of history or were they born yesterday? If you checked the wallets of KKK members during the 60's you would find without, exaggeration, 100% democrat party registration cards. Democrats voted against civil rights legislation. Some liberal progressive movers and shakers in the democrat party are unabashed former domestic terrorists. Political progressives (and/or the completely insane) are responsible for every mass shooting in the U.S. in modern times. FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and joked about it. Foul mouthed LBJ freely used the "N" word in public. Now the ignorant racist progs latch on to some second rate professor's theory because it's easier than thinking. Almost every post by is a left winger (including this one) is a word by word duplication of some leftie's opinion on a blog site. Why do you think progs are at war with information and want to shut down conservative sources of information like Rush Limbaugh and Fox? The answer is simple. Progs do not have the intellectual ability to argue and they want to keep it simple by shutting down opinions that they disagree with. Black people should be insulted at the notion that obtaining a photo I.D. is a racial issue but racist left wingers get away with it.

Yeah but those Dems were conservatives. Youre talking about parties instead of ideologies.

Jefferson Davis

1st President of the Confederate States
Term of office February 18, 1861 – May 10, 1865
Preceded by None (Creation)
Succeeded by None (Dissolution)
Date of birth June 3, 1808
Place of birth Christian County, Kentucky
Date of death December 6, 1889
Place of death New Orleans, Louisiana
Spouse Sarah Knox Taylor (1st wife)
Varina Howell (2nd wife)
Political party Conservative (Southern) Democrat

LPOS. There was no such party.

Democratic party has been in existences for centuries. This is why people think cons are stupid. You guys actually think the Dems were always liberal and the Reps were conservative. It was the other way around during those times.

I think you are full of shit.

Thats ok. I'm not too concerned with what you think. I'm more interested in what you can prove.

 

[Socialist]

I've noticed this aswell, many on the ultra right lack a basic understanding of anything they're against.

I've noticed that your I.Q. is unusually low, so what does that prove about socialists?

What do you base this off of? I can adequately defend myself with factual evidence, you are the one trying to claim the WHO is a marxist organization, when you don't even know what marxism is, let alone socialism. Grow up.

I base it on the riduculous arguments you post to this forum and all the pathetic Marxist propaganda. Only someone who is I.Q. challenged would do such things.

Ridiculous arguments? Please, name one, I would like to see one argument where I haven't backed up what I've said. If you want to call the WHO/amnesty international/etc marxist propaganda mills, when you don't even have a basic understanding of marxism, keep doing it, you make yourself look like a typical conservative.

 

[nat4900]

You know what's a smart thing to do?

Stop using absolutes. Start qualifying your words.

Makes life easier, and you're wrong less often.

Yes, words carry consequences.....But my take (and I'm an older man) is that in an ever [and rapidly] changing world, to want to "conserve" what is obsolete or counter-productive, constitutes failure, anger, bitterness, resentment....many of the "qualities" expressed just this week by right wing zealots over the SC decisions.

 

[occupied]

ITT I'm seeing partisan liberals and progressives touting the idea that people with low IQ are conservative.

That's as bad and dumb as having partisan conservatives saying the same thing about liberals and liberalism. My eye ain't blind when I see the partisan idiots on the right calling liberalism a mental disorder.

Know what the real problem is? It's partisanship of any color and stripe.

In fairness everyone is speaking about the extreme right.

The extreme Left is equally bad.

...

...or do you suppose it must be genius?

What do you honestly think? Step back from what you believe for a moment, and level with me. Maybe, maybe, it's the extremes that are the issue.

Inherently I think extreme left is more intelligent. It takes intelligence to step out from your comfort zone. They may be kooks and weirdos but I have yet to meet one that was not intelligent. I cant say the same thing about some of the mouth breathing conservatives I have met.

Liberals tend to be better read because their ideas come out of books with no pictures rather than the idiot box.