Right wing morons

[vicarz]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56563-2003Aug27.html

Refers to a study describing what types of traits are correlated with being politically conservative. My favorite negative correlation was with 'cognitive complexity.'

Comments

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Good tear!

"avoidance of uncertainty" is much more judgemental and negative a characterization than "striving for certainty."

a negative version of a negative vs a positive for positive...ok...and there are some very negative sounding attributions about the lot of them.

Err...well it sounded good at first. I remember back from the late 90s running into correlational studies that found a negative relationship between measured intelligence and conservative views - but this looks as biased as you point out.

Ugh - objectivity is a rare thing to find.

[chadu.livejournal.com]

Good tear!

Thanx! BTW, I paid my penance for this tear tonight, amidst a group of quite conservative folks.

As I said, to liberals I appear conservative, and vicey-versy. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.

Err...well it sounded good at first. I remember back from the late 90s running into correlational studies that found a negative relationship between measured intelligence and conservative views - but this looks as biased as you point out.

Yeah.

It all depends on the test. I'd like to see one that rated "common sense" (if such a thing could be quantified); I suspect that conservatives would rate higher than liberals. (Note that while growing up, I was always told I had no common sense. I finally figured out why: I asked too many questions about basic assumed knowledge, and never assumed that every event/task would functionally be exactly the same as every other event of that ilk.)

What it comes down to (IMAO) is people picking a side to identify with, forever and amen, like it or lump it. We humans -- from what I've read fairly recently (The Naked Ape and The Third Chimpanzee -- are essentially evolved from monkeys that hunted in packs, and this may be the evolutionary/physiological basis for our need to belong to/define ourselves by/define ourselves in relation to a group.

Finally, I fricking hate it when people use liberal and conservative as synonyms for Democrat and Republican, respectively. I know many very conservative Dems, and quite a few liberal Repubs.


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