File this under "O" for "obvious"...

[Sandy Eggo]

Why Liberals are more Intelligent than Conservatives - Psychology Today

Analyses of large representative samples, from both the United States and the United Kingdom, confirm this prediction.  In both countries, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to be liberals than less intelligent children.  For example, among the American sample, those who identify themselves as "very liberal" in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 106.4, whereas those who identify themselves as "very conservative" in early adulthood have a mean childhood IQ of 94.8.


Even though past studies show that women are more liberal than men, and blacks are more liberal than whites, the effect of childhood intelligence on adult political ideology is twice as large as the effect of either sex or race.  So it appears that, as the Hypothesis predicts, more intelligent individuals are more likely to espouse the value of liberalism than less intelligent individuals, possibly because liberalism is evolutionarily novel and conservatism is evolutionarily familiar.

The primary means that citizens of capitalist democracies contribute their private resources for the welfare of the genetically unrelated others is paying taxes to the government for its social welfare programs.  The fact that conservatives have been shown to give more money to charities than liberals is not inconsistent with the prediction from the Hypothesis; in fact, it supports the prediction.  Individuals can normally choose and select the beneficiaries of their charity donations.  For example, they can choose to give money to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, because they want to help them, but not to give money to the victims of the earthquake in Chile, because they don't want to help them.  In contrast, citizens do not have any control over whom the money they pay in taxes benefit.  They cannot individually choose to pay taxes to fund Medicare, because they want to help elderly white people, but not AFDC, because they don't want to help poor black single mothers.  This may precisely be why conservatives choose to give more money to individual charities of their choice while opposing higher taxes.

Incidentally, this finding substantiates one of the persistent complaints among conservatives.  Conservatives often complain that liberals control the media or the show business or the academia or some other social institutions.  The Hypothesis explains why conservatives are correct in their complaints.  Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions.  They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.

[me]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa

Fine example ya got there.  This blogger has written some really good stuff.




Satoshi Kanazawa Causes Firestorm After Claiming Black Women Are Less Attractive
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/satoshi-kanazawa-black-women-less-attractive_n_863327.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa

[Exterminator]

You can disprove this hypothesis with a simple IQ test, me.

[Exterminator]

They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.

And there you have it!   

[The Troll]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa

Fine example ya got there.  This blogger has written some really good stuff.




Satoshi Kanazawa Causes Firestorm After Claiming Black Women Are Less Attractive
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/satoshi-kanazawa-black-women-less-attractive_n_863327.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa

  I for one think that white women are more attractive than black womam.  Blond, tall, blue or green eyes.  That's what I like and that's what I married.  So what anyone else thinks of me for thinking that way. 

[Sandy Eggo]

I appreciate that you always offer your services as a poster child me, but sometimes you should consider giving someone else a chance.

The blog is written based on research. The fact that it's a blog doesn't make it inaccurate. Where's your research disproving it?

[Exterminator]

You can disprove this hypothesis with a simple IQ test, me.

Again...crickets.

[The Troll]

Again...crickets.

  I would really like to take an IQ test.  I got a 98 in the Junior year of high school.  I know I wouldn't get in Mensa International.  But I do think with the added education I have received and the experiences in life I do think I could do better than 98.  For one thing I have learned how to take a test better. You get the easy questions first and then you go back.  It really improved my test taking and scores.   

  I also think I could beat, hand down, "ME" and believe me that's not bragging.   

[me]

I appreciate that you always offer your services as a poster child me, but sometimes you should consider giving someone else a chance.

The blog is written based on research. The fact that it's a blog doesn't make it inaccurate. Where's your research disproving it?

And just how was that research conducted?  You are wanting real bad to lump a group of people together here and put a label on them.   What a person is politically has nothing to do with their level of intelligence it has to do with personal choice and beliefs.  What is it you don't understand about everyone does not think alike nor do they have the same opinion about things.  Are we all supposed to agree about things all of a sudden or be labeled as stupid?  Isn't that a form of bullying, telling someone they are stupid if they don't have the same opinion as you, to get them to see things your way?   What tactic will they come up with next? 

[Sandy Eggo]

IMO the phrase "liberalism is evolutionarily novel and conservatism is evolutionarily familiar" says it all and is true enough to support the author's claim.

[Sandy Eggo]

And just how was that research conducted?  You are wanting real bad to lump a group of people together here and put a label on them.   What a person is politically has nothing to do with their level of intelligence it has to do with personal choice and beliefs.  What is it you don't understand about everyone does not think alike nor do they have the same opinion about things.  Are we all supposed to agree about things all of a sudden or be labeled as stupid?  Isn't that a form of bullying, telling someone they are stupid if they don't have the same opinion as you, to get them to see things your way?   What tactic will they come up with next? 

1. Read the article and contact the author to find out more about the research.
2. Conservativism and Liberalism doesn't necessarily only pertain to political beliefs.
3. I never made the claim that people whose opinion is different than mine is stupid.

[me]

1. Read the article and contact the author to find out more about the research.
2. Conservativism and Liberalism doesn't necessarily only pertain to political beliefs.
3. I never made the claim that people whose opinion is different than mine is stupid.

No, you're just saying they're less intelligent. 

[Sandy Eggo]

No, just because a person has a different opinion doesn't mean they're less intelligent. I never said that and neither did the article.

[The Troll]

And just how was that research conducted?  You are wanting real bad to lump a group of people together here and put a label on them.   What a person is politically has nothing to do with their level of intelligence it has to do with personal choice and beliefs.  What is it you don't understand about everyone does not think alike nor do they have the same opinion about things.  Are we all supposed to agree about things all of a sudden or be labeled as stupid?  Isn't that a form of bullying, telling someone they are stupid if they don't have the same opinion as you, to get them to see things your way?   What tactic will they come up with next?

  "Isn't that a form of bullying?"  I don't think it's bothering you.  You seem to enjoy pulling everybodies strings, unless you are stupid.  Because when you really think about it nobody can be that stupid.   

[me]

No, just because a person has a different opinion doesn't mean they're less intelligent. I never said that and neither did the article.

Conservatives have different opinions than Liberals and  he's saying that Liberals are more intelligent so does it not follow that he is saying those of a different opinion are less intelligent than Liberals?  If not just exactly what is he saying? 
Oh, I also caught where he hinted at racism with one of his BS comments too which is pretty shabby after that one article he wrote.  He got two bully tactics worked in there.  He is just another Liberal blogger writing Liberal slanted articles and books.