Low intelligence and “low effort thinking” are strongly linked to right-wing attitudes

like taking candy from a baby:
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Research Article - SOCIAL SCIENCES
Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/23/eabf1234
R. Kelly Garrett* and Robert M. Bond

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Science Advances 02 Jun 2021:
Vol. 7, no. 23, eabf1234
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf1234

Abstract
The idea that U.S. conservatives are uniquely likely to hold misperceptions is widespread but has not been systematically assessed. Research has focused on beliefs about narrow sets of claims never intended to capture the richness of the political information environment. Furthermore, factors contributing to this performance gap remain unclear. We generated an unique longitudinal dataset combining social media engagement data and a 12-wave panel study of Americans’ political knowledge about high-profile news over 6 months. Results confirm that conservatives have lower sensitivity than liberals, performing worse at distinguishing truths and falsehoods. This is partially explained by the fact that the most widely shared falsehoods tend to promote conservative positions, while corresponding truths typically favor liberals. The problem is exacerbated by liberals’ tendency to experience bigger improvements in sensitivity than conservatives as the proportion of partisan news increases. These results underscore the importance of reducing the supply of right-leaning misinformation.

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ExGoper, do not use the few brain cells you have remaining. You are going to need it. Again, extreme liberal idiots believe they are all geniuses when in fact they are the dumbest persons around. When a person tells you how smart they are, they are dumb as hell. Think about it. These dumb sticks need validation from someone to tell them how smart they are? They denigrate anyone they have disagreements with thinking somehow, it validates their so called intelligence? No dummies, it just shows us, you got nothing in your empty skulls. You do not debate the issues because your small minds cannot handle even an ounce of using those brain cells, what little you have left, so you avoid debates but, copy and paste articles written by extreme liberal hack idiots as yourself and promote it as fact? Oh, last thing. Smart people do not need to tell others how smart they are nor require validation from others that they are smart. People know you are smart when you can explain in a coherent matter, your points in any argument. Dumb people like you, just mouth off nonsense, lies, disinformation because you got nothing else.
 
gwb-trading said:
The actual source study says that low intelligence is related to prejudice and racism. It says nothing about political spectrum.

Your article makes the assertion that somehow prejudice and racism is solely related to conservative people. Which is not true at all. There are plenty of left-wing people who are prejudice and racist. Go visit a low income housing project as a white person and get a dose of the prejudice and racism from low intelligence people on the left.

Sadly there is plenty of prejudice and racism from people of all political spectrums in North America. It has a strong correlation to low intelligence and no real relationship to political spectrum.
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Good points;
that will teach or preach.:caution::caution: I like Bill Gates/MSFT, but he is prejudiced against NRA + second amendment. Would consider Bill Gates above average intelligence even though he quit Harvard/LOL .One problem is now ,many in the media call most anyone that disagrees with them ''racist''
And if media cant find any racism/ they just make some racist lies up; like ''white Hispanic'' G Zimmerman shoots black T Martin.
Thanks+ good points.......................................................................
 
exGOPer said:
Longitudinal studies provide some of the most convincing evidence. One such study looked at general intelligence in 10- and 11-year-old kids, and then re-studied those kids as adults two decades later—and found a clear connection between low intelligence and subsequent racism and sexism. Similarly, higher intelligence in childhood has been shown to predict less racism in adulthood. These analyses strongly suggest that low intelligence actually leads to hateful attitudes later on.

This is just a sampling of the accruing evidence on this point, all of which points to another puzzling question: Why? Why would verbal ability and math skills and other cognitive assets translate, over the years, into such hateful attitudes?

Dhont and Hodson believe they have an answer to this, again one based on rigorous abundant evidence. Their theory is that right-wing ideologies attract people with lower mental abilities because they minimize the complexity of the world. Right-wing ideologies offer well-structured and ordered views of society, views that preserve traditions and norms, so they are especially attractive to those who are threatened by change and want to avoid uncertainty and ambiguity. Conversely, smart people are more capable of grasping a world of nuance, fluidity and relativity.

The empirical evidence supports this link, too. Low intelligence and “low effort thinking” are strongly linked to right-wing attitudes, including authoritarianism and conservative politics. And again, there appears to be a demonstrable causal link: Studies have found, for example, that children with poor mental skills grow up to be strongly right-wing adults.

There is a final link in the chain of causality, according to Dhont and Hodson. Considerable evidence shows that conservative ideology predicts all sorts of prejudice—against ethnic and racial minorities, the disadvantaged, any outgroup. Indeed, right wingers are much more likely to see outgroups as a threat to traditional values and social order, resulting in heightened prejudice. Dhont and Hodson tested and confirmed this mediation model: Lower childhood intelligence clearly predicts right-wing ideology and attitude, which in turn predicts prejudice in adulthood.

The scientists elaborate on this idea in the Current Directions article: Intelligence and thinking determine how people assess threats in the world. Those with lower ability—reasoning skills, processing speed, and so forth—prefer simple and predictable answers, because that is what they are capable of processing. Any uncertainty is threatening, and they respond to such threats by trying to preserve what is familiar and safe, the status quo. These conservative reactions are basic and normal—they reduce anxiety—but over time they harden into more stable and pervasive world views, which include stereotypical thinking, avoidance, prejudicial attitudes and over discrimination.

The weight of evidence is hard to ignore, yet according to these scientists, it is conspicuously absent from contemporary theories of prejudice. They believe that it’s time for psychological scientists to stop ignoring the evidence—that in fact the field will benefit from open discussion of these controversial findings. The country might as well, and the events in Ferguson may well trigger that discussion.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/is-racism-just-a-form-of-stupidity.html
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This explains BLM and ANTIFA
 
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