Why Liberals Are More Intelligent
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OpenCasket
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Posted 10:21 pm, 06/26/2017
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 You're sneaky.
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antithesis
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Posted 10:19 pm, 06/26/2017
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That was the title of the study... the study title actually included "And Atheists," and the study itself also refers to sexual exclusivity, but I chose to take those out so as to not confuse the topic.
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OpenCasket
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Posted 10:16 pm, 06/26/2017
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"Why Liberals Are More Intelligent"
I'm sorry but the very title of this thread is unfair and in bad taste.
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antithesis
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Posted 10:12 pm, 06/26/2017
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An Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, is a measure of what psychologists call our " fluid and crystallized intelligence." Put simply, an IQ test measures your reasoning and problem-solving abilities. There are different kinds of IQ tests, but most analyze your visual, mathematical and language abilities as well as your memory and information processing speed. A licensed psychologist administers a series of subtests; the results are then combined into one score: your IQ. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/...index.html
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sparkling water
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Posted 10:06 pm, 06/26/2017
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Look up Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
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farmer4life
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Posted 10:06 pm, 06/26/2017
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You can be book smart and be dumb as a box of rocks, whether you are liberal or conservative or whatever you call yourself. I have found common sense like Oc says trumps book smarts any day.
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168Amax
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Posted 10:04 pm, 06/26/2017
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If you are 18 and have a heart you are a liberal by the time you are 30 if you have a brain you are a conservative
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OpenCasket
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Posted 10:01 pm, 06/26/2017
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Common sensibility TRUMPS all IQ test scores.
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antithesis
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Posted 10:00 pm, 06/26/2017
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The researcher of the study describes himself as a "strong libertarian," so I don't think anyone could argue that his research was biased.He simply compared IQ scores as a teenager with their ideologies as an adult (8-10 years later).
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sparkling water
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Posted 9:50 pm, 06/26/2017
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Really smart people don't have to say so.
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OpenCasket
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Posted 9:43 pm, 06/26/2017
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Well we all know liberals cheat on tests.
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antithesis
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Posted 9:40 pm, 06/26/2017
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The study found that young adults who said they were "very conservative" had an average adolescent IQ of 95, whereas those who said they were "very liberal" averaged 106.
American Sociological Association - Where do individual values and preferences come from? Why do people want what they want? And why do different people have different values and preferences?
The problem of values is one of the unresolved theoretical questions in behavioral and social sciences. Elegant theories of behavior in microeconomics and game theory can predict and explain what choices people will make if the theorists know what people want, but without knowing people's preferences and values, economists and game theorists cannot predict individual choices. Economists have long given up on explaining individual preferences and values, and instead offer the dictum "De gustibus non est disputandum" (Stigler and Becker 1977). There is no accounting for tastes, and one cannot explain individuals' idiosyncratic values and preferences. Despite many attempts and some promising starts, there currently is no satisfactory general theory of values that can explain where individual preferences and values come from.
Some have argued that evolutionary psychology can provide such general theory of values (Horne 2004; Kanazawa 2001). Evolutionary psychology is the study of universal human nature, or sex-specific male human nature and female human nature, and their interaction with the environment. It can therefore in principle explain both universal preferences (as a function of the universal human nature) and individual preferences (as a function of the interaction between the universal human nature and individual circumstances and experiences).
http://www.asanet.org/resea...ntelligent
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