I mean, I find it interesting that this pattern does not exist among women.
Too bad the article doesn't actually link the study.
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EDIT: Oops, originally just linked to a figure from the document, heh.
Meanwhile, me:
*holding triangle block piece
...and you know what hole that goes in? That's right, the square hole.
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Traditional values are a crutch for the intellectually unambitious and a cudgel for the ambitious.
Duh.
I think being knowledgeable leads someone to be more liberal than they otherwise would have been. Less inclined to fear the outgroup and fear change. This is why a college degree is so associated with liberalism. I don't know how well that corresponds to IQ, which itself is kind of wishy washy.
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I'm going to ignore all the issues with this study, and just be happy there are people out there finding the data that shows conservatism is stupidity.
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So what determines it in women?
Religion and safety. They have to be surrounded by it and buying in is the only way the think they will stay on this side of the dirt.
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I honestly wouldn't have expected this, unless IQ was also correlated to empathy somehow
A lot of the sections in an IQ test involve prefrontal cortex which also handled empathy.
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