Study: Average IQ Lower for Conservatives

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Study: Average IQ Lower for Conservatives
May 22, 2006(AP)

In a recent study, IQ tests indicated that, on average, conservative political thinkers trail their liberal counterparts by as many as 22 points. Researchers identified several factors for this disparity in their peer-reviewed paper, to be published in an upcoming issue of "CURRENT RESEARCH IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY". Factors cited include higher educational achievements, and a feeling of greater social and civic responsibility among liberal thinkers. Conservative thinkers, on average, are cited as having less ambitious educational goals and achievements, attributed in part to a discrediting of science, in favor of religious views.

Using data gathered over a 10 year period, as well as hypothetico-deductive procedures, empirical research, and extensive testing, the researchers have constructed what may be the most extensive and accurate picture to date of the relationship between political thought and intelligence.

Contributors include professor Yen Lee Ho, Ph.D., Harvard University, Dr. William Rodgers, Institute of Psychology, London, and Dr. Karen Hoffner, Scholar-in-Residence, Boston University.

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[billvon 3,111]

> well as hypothetico-deductive procedures

Ah, well, that clinches it! The only thing better than hypothetico-deductive procedures are intelligentico-extrapolative paradigms.

[rushmc 23]

Well the libs have always acted like they know more than anybody else and now they can think they have proven it too

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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[lawrocket 3]

Yep. Carter almost certainly had a higher IQ than Reagan. But here's another study that was recently released that indicates that smart people, like liberals, choke under pressure to the point where dumber people, like conservatives, perform better.

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050209_under_pressure.html

"A new study finds that individuals with high working-memory capacity, which normally allows them to excel, crack under pressure and do worse on simple exams than when allowed to work with no constraints. Those with less capacity score low, too, but they tend not to be affected by pressure."

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[rushmc 23]

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> well as hypothetico-deductive procedures

Ah, well, that clinches it! The only thing better than hypothetico-deductive procedures are intelligentico-extrapolative paradigms.

Trying to figure out what this means is giving me a headache

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[lummy 4]

Obviously the results are tainted!!! Just look at who's done the research, all those left loving professors!!!

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"A new study finds that individuals with high working-memory capacity, which normally allows them to excel, crack under pressure and do worse on simple exams than when allowed to work with no constraints. Those with less capacity score low, too, but they tend not to be affected by pressure."

Gads, more incredibly obvious findings.

So people of higher intelligence do worse on tests when they are under pressure than when they are not. And less intelligent people score low also, but are not as effected by the pressure. (I'm going to assume that the high capacity folks still scored better than the low capacity people, but that is not explicitly stated).

They could have saved a lot of time and money and just asked me.

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[billvon 3,111]

>that indicates that smart people, like liberals, choke under pressure
>to the point where dumber people, like conservatives, perform better.

Actually, the study said that 'smart people' perform better than 'dumb people' without pressure, and that the two groups perform the same under pressure:

"Under this higher, real world pressure situation, the HWM group’s score dropped to that of the LWM group, which was not affected by the increased pressure."

(and as an aside, I know some very dumb liberals!)

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"...data from the widely used General Social Survey (GSS) consistently show that Republicans are better educated than Democrats (on average, they have more than half a year more education and hold a higher final degree)."

Source: TCS Daily

[billvon 3,111]

> Republicans are better educated than Democrats (on average, they
>have more than half a year more education and hold a higher final degree.

Maybe if republicans got out of their ivory towers and started living in the real world, they wouldn't be in danger of being voted out of power!

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(on average, they have more than half a year more education and hold a higher final degree).

Yale doesn't count when you have a C average and daddy got you in.

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Average IQ Lower for Conservatives

oh bullshit. Everyone knows those IQ tests are culturally biased.

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Maybe if republicans got out of their ivory towers and started living in the real world, they wouldn't be in danger of being voted out of power!

Not going to happen... they own the companies that make the voting machines.

[Channman 2]

Republicans are better educated than Democrats. Why you hit so hard.

My sister has only a High School education, and she pulls down $250,000.00 a year income with a Fortune Five hundred New York Based Company. And Receives a 30% bonus on her annual income if she meets budget which she has managed to do 3 years running, putting her income well over 300K and beating me times two.

Education never replaced hard work or a vision worth pursueing. Don't get so wrapped up on education, although it's important, its not everything when it comes to success and happeniness.

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Yale doesn't count when you have a C average and daddy got you in

How about an MBA from Harvard?

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Yale doesn't count when you have a C average and daddy got you in

How about an MBA from Harvard?

That must explain the outstanding successes of his various business enterprises.

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That must explain the outstanding successes of his various business enterprises

Sounds like the typical entrepeneur. Wouldn't be the first failed businessman president. He actually made a fortune on these failed attempts though, so it would depend on what one would consider "success".

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[Nightingale 0]

Education isn't everything, and life experience counts for a lot (especially in trade industries and the computer industry). However, it can be more difficult to get employers to take you seriously without a college degree, and many times you end up making less money than someone else who does the same job, but has the degree.

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"...data from the widely used General Social Survey (GSS) consistently show that Republicans are better educated than Democrats (on average, they have more than half a year more education and hold a higher final degree)."

Source: TCS Daily

why should that be surprising.

privileged children are more likely to be able to afford college,
and beside the money they will get from mom and dad also the
guidance which party is better for their income tax etc.

to some extend graduates from professional schools will also
have the "I earned so why share it" attitude.

However, once you start going up the academic ranks,
(Masters, PhD, post-doctoral fellows, professors) the
percentage of conservatives exponentially decreases to
near extinction.

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That must explain the outstanding successes of his various business enterprises

Sounds like the typical entrepeneur. Wouldn't be the first failed businessman president. He actually made a fortune on these failed attempts though, so it would depend on what one would consider "success".

Daddy's buddies bailing him out to the tune of millions is not success.

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[nanook 1]

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Daddy's buddies bailing him out to the tune of millions is not success

Oil is not an anonymous business. Everyone knows everyone. Of course there is going to be connections and "buddies". The bailout proved to provide collateral and success in other future ventures that made him the millionaire he is today. You may claim his oiler days was a bust, but his buyout was a win-win situation that would make him rich later. He failed in Oil, but so far he had more successes than failures overall.

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Daddy's buddies bailing him out to the tune of millions is not success

Oil is not an anonymous business. Everyone knows everyone. Of course there is going to be connections and "buddies". The bailout proved to provide collateral and success in other future ventures that made him the millionaire he is today. You may claim his oiler days was a bust, but his buyout was a win-win situation that would make him rich later. He failed in Oil, but so far he had more successes than failures overall.

If a bunch of my father's friends gave me $millions, I too could be a multi-millionaire but I wouldn't claim it was due to my success as a businessman.

Prescott Bush's Nazi money came in handy in enriching the Bushes too.

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My sister has only a High School education, and she pulls down $250,000.00 a year income with a Fortune Five hundred New York Based Company. And Receives a 30% bonus on her annual income if she meets budget which she has managed to do 3 years running, putting her income well over 300K and beating me times two.

Education never replaced hard work or a vision worth pursueing. Don't get so wrapped up on education, although it's important, its not everything when it comes to success and happeniness.

One word: Outlier.

When studying populations, averages are what count (to keep it simple). On average, better education, especially of the kind that gets degreed, is directly positively correlated to higher income. So are some other things, such as hard work. Not to take away from her individual effort and accomplishments, but she is way off the norm with those stats. Good for her.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[Gravitymaster 0]

You will never be able to explain business success and failure to the Academics as they sit in their warm cozy offices drawing a weekly paycheck. They will never grasp the concept that many of the most successful businesspeople of the past had many failures before they succeeded.