Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies.
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I don't see the hordes if inner city fourth generation welfare recipients (also known as hyphenated protected members of America's untouchable class) voting republican.....
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Did you read the OP quote?
Hodson and Busseri (2012) found in a correlational study that lower intelligence in childhood is predictive of greater racism in adulthood, with this effect being mediated (partially explained) through conservative ideology. They also found poor abstract reasoning skills were related to homophobic attitudes which was mediated through authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact
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" greater racism in adulthood" this would be in common with republicans and inner city minorities.
" homophobic attitudes" republicans and inner city minorities have this in common.
So in conclusion... inner city minorities should vote Republican.
Maybe but I take it that both sides have their fair share of low iq voters.
I can only agree with you.
Right-wingers tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow up to have racist and anti-gay views, says a controversial new study.
Conservative politics work almost as a 'gateway' into prejudice against others, say the Canadian academics.
The paper analysed large UK studies which compared childhood intelligence with political views in adulthood across more than 15,000 people.
The authors claim that people with low intelligence gravitate towards right-wing views because they make them feel safe.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html
Conservative politics work almost as a 'gateway' into prejudice against others, say the Canadian academics.
The paper analysed large UK studies which compared childhood intelligence with political views in adulthood across more than 15,000 people.
The authors claim that people with low intelligence gravitate towards right-wing views because they make them feel safe.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html
from that article
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.
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.
So what ?
Lifespan of socially conservative ideologies ... thousands of years
(all recorded history ?)
Lifespan of liberal ideologies ... maybe one hundred years.
Who's smarter ?