For example, many religions offer simple and predictable answers. Quite ironic that you dub yourself intelligent and are prejudiced against the stupid. Lets not get things confused here. It is ignorance, not stupidity that leads to prejudice. Racism is rather related to ignorance than to intelligence. Some things are simple and there is no need for science to explain that. Someone who is thinking his race is superior to some any is not stupid or an idiot, this person is simply ignorant.
In the modern world, intelligence depends on the socioeconomic status, I think. Intelligent people using sound reasoning may formulate conservative views that have merit and are worth considering. This is contradictory or rather paradoxical when used in the US with US terms. Some of which is more akin to misnomer then fact. This also is a huge problem given the lefts stance on social issues, as the left has traditionally been against change, racist and so forth.
Meaning that the Klu Klux Klan for example was started in an attempt, by the left, by Democrats, to prevent blacks form voting. Democrats almost always voted against Republicans whom were trying to push social change, by you know, giving people, mean all people and not just land owners the right to vote.
Meaning that there was a push to push white men, blacks and then women into voting. All of which were right wing causes in the US. What I mean by this is that the Republican party was started and formed by and with blacks in mind.
The most easy to look at is the black man today in the US. How is he doing under democratic rule? I mean the Democrat party is in charge, run by a half-black man, so are blacks doing better overall? Anyway, I hate race and prejudice being pushed into political topics. In particular when talking as you are. Authoritative can speak to Hitler and Stalin.
It also speaks to Obama and Bush. Your terms are improper. Well you had me going for a while until it turned into a political hit piece on conservatives, who, by the way, are generally better educated and more intelligent than liberals. The intentional dumbing-down of school children over the past few decades has prepared a fertile ground for the racism that liberalism needs to take root and flourish.
If you read this article and the first half made sense to you and you believed in the studies of these two people who dedicated their lives to the degrees they currently hold and then suddenly changed your mind and did not believe what you read because you identified yourself as one of the low IQ subjects, then maybe you are.
You interpreted the article as true based on facts and experimentation until it got personal for you. An intelligent person that reads something that describes them in a negative light due to a study made by not one, but two people with the degrees to back it up, would at least consider the possibility of it being true. That is my opinion anyways. My theory was bigotry is a form of mental illness, and by definition it a handy cap. And should be treated as such. I would put them in the severely low effort thinkers category…..
I can understand some of the hostility in this comment section. If the article had specified this, I think it could have avoided some of the angry responses. I knew there would be a slew of negative comments as soon as I saw the mention of conservatism.
This article, probably goes a long way towards explaining that reaction. Did they control in this study for educational attainment? It seems that people who are more intelligent may become more educated and have have different views on that basis. The far better better predictor of ideology in the US is urban versus rural.
A look at the precincts that vote democrat versus republican shows cities in blue and everything else in red. The only place this breaks down is in New Mexico. No person should be allowed to comment a Scientific Report published in a Psychological Science Journal, unless declaring how much scores his own IQ Intelligence Quotient.
My Dad had an IQ of He was an anti-Semite. And do you think the Nazis were stupid? Same too for the KKK. Some of you are missing the point. While they may seem alike, those two assertions are very different. I wonder if intelligence decreases in the population, in both Dems and Reps, the father away from moderate they get. I find it interesting how you can tell the left or right leanings of the people commenting here just by how they respond.
Take the comment by Brian above, for example, a claim that conservatives are generally more educated and more intelligent than liberals, yet there has never been a study that shows that, although numerous studies have shown just what this one does. But what I really wanted to comment ont htis very interesting theme, is which groups where tested on intelligence and racist-rating: just American whites, or other ethnic groups as well?
Is racisme linked to sexisme, homofobia and hypernationalism? Just musing away here. I do not know enough to really speak on the matter and am certainly not clever enough! During apartheid in South Africa I do not know the actual date The cabinet was the most highly academically qualified in the world!
Just a thought! Someday racism will be recognized for what it is. Racism is a form of mental illness which can be contagious if not treated in communities. This has bullshit written all over it.
Conservatives seem to be intelligent on a practical level, while Liberals seem to be able to process social situations a bit better. Conservatives are smart enough to protect 2nd Amendment, but dumb enough to try to ban homosexuality and abortion. The subject is given a screen and two buttons. First, the subject is asked to push the button on the left if the word that appears on the screen is a positive word, like beauty, or a common first name for a white person, such as Nancy.
Otherwise, they are instructed to push the button on the right. After a session, the test is changed slightly, and the names given are those more common for a black person, such as Tyrone.
The greater the difference between the reaction times in the two sessions, the more the person has trouble associating black names with positive concepts. Next, the team had each of the students speak briefly with a black experimenter and then perform a test of cognitive ability called the Stroop test.
They showed that the higher a bias score the student had in the IAT test,. To uncover what was behind this effect, the team used a functional magnetic resonance imager, which is able to peer inside the brain and measure the level of activity in different areas.
If we accept that blacks are genetically endowed jumpers because 'they' jump so well, we are obliged to accept that they are genetically unendowed at schoolwork because 'they' do so poorly. A gentler but no less damning critique appears in the latest Scientific American, which points out that Entine's pretence at "scientific method" is disingenuous, since his book "does not even attempt to evaluate a robust data set" but uses a few individual cases - Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan - as justification for extravagant racial generalisations.
The journal's same issue carries a most salutary piece about the dangers of half-baked extrapolation from dodgy data. It examines the overcrowding-causes-crime scare, which has been fanned for many years by conservative underclass-pundits who maintain that "behavioural deviancy" in inner cities is the fault of feckless parents producing too many children. The theory, based on experiments with rats in a confined space, turns out to be wholly unsupported by statistical evidence when applied to humans.
What actually causes crime and social disorder, the authors find, is not population density but "scarcity of resources" - or, if you prefer, gross inequalities in the distribution of wealth. For obvious reasons, such a conclusion is unpalatable to rightwing doom-mongers. So they blame the victims instead. And who better to blame than. Buy books by Francis Wheen at the Guardian bookshop. The Chatto Book of Cats. The Chatto Book of Literary Cats. The Vintage Book of Cats.
Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies. Karl Marx. Lord Gnome's Literary Companion. Text-only version. Send it to a friend.
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