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Aaah a feel-good article for leftists.
Plenty of dumb dumbs among us, don't worry.
There's a reason universities lean heavily left
I would disagree on the "heavily" unless you accept the US definition of the right-left paradigm.
Also ignore if you mean heavy in population ratio not how far the needle goes.
What university did you go to?
A canadien one.
Highly depends on what university you go to and whether or not you participate in the Greek culture.
yogurt?
We're talking about Universities here, not the hundreds of bullshit liberal arts colleges that are just sleep camps for the Learning Annex.
Can you elaborate on that?
Do you mean like "greek" college cults, like the alpha beta omega stuff? Or like Greek from the actual country, Greece?
Use your brain. Obviously it’s the Greek clubs. Everyone who replied to my comment doesn’t understand American Greek fraternities/sororities and the terrible culture surrounding them.
I saw that and was leading the conclusion for people. You're welcome.
Edit: but also, what IF greece somehow had a culture that led to this
It really doesnt.
Don't worry. Let a non dumb dumb explain.
There are many causality relationship kinds.
In case 1, all leftists have big IQ. But NOT all big IQ ppl are leftist.
In case 2, all big IQ ppl are leftist. But NOT all leftists have big IQ.
In case 3, all big IQ ppl are leftist, and all leftists have big IQ.
In case 4, some NOT all leftist have big IQ. And NOT all big IQ ppl are leftist. But some are.
Assuming having big IQ is desirable, leftists would want either case 1 or 3. Since that would mean they have a big IQ.
However, the headline seems to suggest case 2. And in reality. And it could still be case 4.
Of course, in reality there is an uncountable number of parameters, not just 3, so don't take the "all" in my comment as literally "all". Reality probably resembles more case 4.
If this were a feel-good article for leftists, the headline would suggest case 1 or 3. Since that is what leftists want.
Even assuming the best case scenario of case 2 where all big IQ people are leftists. If you define big IQ as "top 10%" and low IQ as "not big IQ": it is technically possible for 90% of leftists to be low IQ. And if low IQ is 50-50 leftist-conservative, 78% of leftists would be low IQ.
what about big PP tho?
Could be the third parameter that causes both leftism and big IQ.
Someone would need to do the study on that to be sure though.
Sure, but perhaps take solace that we're less deliberately hateful and that stupidity isn't celebrated as it is among the arch conservatives?
Present! I don't even remember my times tables
Eh. I don't feel particularly good that I'm surrounded by conservative idiots.
I think that political allegiance is often much more about emotions and sociological relations than intellect. Class thinking is more prevalent than we assume nowadays