Championship Subdivision Football | FCS Football | Stadiums | Blogs | Forums

Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/li ... tml?hpt=C2

Hmmm, interesting...but please remember: the data should not be used to stereotype or make assumptions about people. Thank you. (The recent emergence of the Tea Party skewed the results a bit lol I KID I KID )

Did we need a study to tell us this?

Here's proof enough.

Higher than what?

How large was their study?

Did they use more liberals than conservatives?

Did the participants from each side come from families of comparable wealth/opportunities?

Did the participants go to schools that were similar in terms of quality of education?

A difference of 6-11 points is really small. I'd put it in the d=.2 range...not very big at all. The difference between someone with an IQ of 130 and 124 is like the difference between a 4.0 student and a 3.98 student.

You do realize that these are the very same I.Q. tests that indicate...
1) whites (on average) have I.Q. scores 15 points higher than blacks
2) men (on average) have I.Q. scores 5 points higher than women
among other highly politically incorrect things


By the way, this study was done by an evolutionary psychologist, and pretty much everything they say should be taken with a big grain of salt.

Pwns wrote:You do realize that these are the very same I.Q. tests that indicate...
1) whites (on average) have I.Q. scores 15 points higher than blacks
2) men (on average) have I.Q. scores 5 points higher than women
among other highly politically incorrect things


By the way, this study was done by an evolutionary psychologist, and pretty much everything they say should be taken with a big grain of salt.

that's the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article.

BigSkyBears wrote:

Pwns wrote:You do realize that these are the very same I.Q. tests that indicate...
1) whites (on average) have I.Q. scores 15 points higher than blacks
2) men (on average) have I.Q. scores 5 points higher than women
among other highly politically incorrect things


By the way, this study was done by an evolutionary psychologist, and pretty much everything they say should be taken with a big grain of salt.

that's the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article.

I'm sure you discredit anything involving the "e" word.

This is old news...
There are dozens of Intelligence Quotient Studies over a period of the last 40 years that have come to this same conclusion - over and over again...

One done in the late 1980's I learned a lot from concluded that:
1) Liberals tended to think they "knew less" and thus continued to try to "learn more"
2) Liberals tended to value the idea of "open mindedness" and explored new concepts more readily which allowed for more developed skills in varied areas
3) It was more common for a Conservative to default to "Assumptive Reasoning" on issues they actually had little to no knowledge on

One point I found fascinating was that Liberals - although they did indeed score higher and showed deeper general knowledge in a greater range of areas - they were far more easily manipulated or tricked - not so much the suspecting of traps but rather "taking the bait" when being led...

This skill is difficult to assign quotient value to so I don't recall it adding much value to the general conservative accumulation... but it's worth noting because it was part of an overwhelming conclusion

pretty much all of this is on display (day in and day out) right here on this board...

Chizzang wrote:This is old news...
There are dozens of Intelligence Quotient Studies over a period of the last 40 years that have come to this same conclusion - over and over again...

One done in the late 1980's I learned a lot from concluded that:
1) Liberals tended to think they "knew less" and thus continued to try to "learn more"
2) Liberals tended to value the idea of "open mindedness" and explored new concepts more readily which allowed for more developed skills in varied areas
3) It was more common for a Conservative to default to "Assumptive Reasoning" on issues they actually had little to no knowledge on

One point I found fascinating was that Liberals - although they did indeed score higher and showed deeper general knowledge in a greater range of areas - they were far more easily manipulated or tricked - not so much the suspecting of traps but rather "taking the bait" when being led...

This skill is difficult to assign quotient value to so I don't recall it adding much value to the general conservative accumulation... but it's worth noting because it was part of an overwhelming conclusion

pretty much all of this is on display (day in and day out) right here on this board...

Interesting. Most liberals I know ^^^ can't WAIT to tell you how much they know. They blather ON and ON and ON.... ^^^^^

AZGrizFan wrote:

Chizzang wrote:This is old news...
There are dozens of Intelligence Quotient Studies over a period of the last 40 years that have come to this same conclusion - over and over again...

One done in the late 1980's I learned a lot from concluded that:
1) Liberals tended to think they "knew less" and thus continued to try to "learn more"
2) Liberals tended to value the idea of "open mindedness" and explored new concepts more readily which allowed for more developed skills in varied areas
3) It was more common for a Conservative to default to "Assumptive Reasoning" on issues they actually had little to no knowledge on

One point I found fascinating was that Liberals - although they did indeed score higher and showed deeper general knowledge in a greater range of areas - they were far more easily manipulated or tricked - not so much the suspecting of traps but rather "taking the bait" when being led...

This skill is difficult to assign quotient value to so I don't recall it adding much value to the general conservative accumulation... but it's worth noting because it was part of an overwhelming conclusion

pretty much all of this is on display (day in and day out) right here on this board...

Interesting. Most liberals I know ^^^ can't WAIT to tell you how much they know. They blather ON and ON and ON.... ^^^^^

Well that says a lot about who you know.

RobsPics wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
Interesting. Most liberals I know ^^^ can't WAIT to tell you how much they know. They blather ON and ON and ON.... ^^^^^

Well that says a lot about who you know.

Yeah it does. Guys just like you, clitorus, Griztakesitalltheway, ky jelly, Douche1Bag...you know...blowhards.

AZGrizFan wrote:

RobsPics wrote:

Well that says a lot about who you know.

Yeah it does. Guys just like you, clitorus, Griztakesitalltheway, ky jelly, Douche1Bag...you know...blowhards.

Oh so you think you know me eh?

LOL

Grizalltheway wrote:

BigSkyBears wrote:
that's the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article.

I'm sure you discredit anything involving the "e" word.

Not everything, but that doesn't mean this study isn't biased.

BigSkyBears wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
I'm sure you discredit anything involving the "e" word.

Not everything, but that doesn't mean this study isn't biased.

True. But just because it's biased, it doesn't mean that it is wrong. If you were a liberal you would know this.

Where do moderates come in?

A story on CNN touting the intelligence of liberals? Seems credible enough to me

UNHWildCats wrote:Did we need a study to tell us this?

Here's proof enough.

Good Lord what does that say about John Kerry. Bush got better grades (grade) than Kerry.

EDIT: Fixed grammatical error

Pwns wrote:You do realize that these are the very same I.Q. tests that indicate...
1) whites (on average) have I.Q. scores 15 points higher than blacks
2) men (on average) have I.Q. scores 5 points higher than women
among other highly politically incorrect things
.

WHOOOP! WHOOOP! WHOOOP! WHOOOOOOOOOP! WHOOOOP! PC alarm going off!

You must not say such things...Rob's Pics' head will explode when he realizes he just committed the ultimate liberal insult.

AZGrizFan wrote:

RobsPics wrote:

Well that says a lot about who you know.

Yeah it does. Guys just like you, clitorus, Griztakesitalltheway, ky jelly, Douche1Bag...you know...blowhards.

It's "Cleetorus."


" Get it right or pay the price."









Statistics... 60% of the time it works, every time.

SeattleGriz wrote:

UNHWildCats wrote:Did we need a study to tell us this?

Here's proof enough.

Good Lord what does that say about John Kerry. Bush got better grades (grade) then Kerry.

It says that Kerry was an underachiever.

(Good grades do not mean high IQ, any more than bad grades mean low IQ)

AZGrizFan wrote:

RobsPics wrote:

Well that says a lot about who you know.

Yeah it does. Guys just like you, clitorus, Griztakesitalltheway, ky jelly, Douche1Bag...you know...blowhards.

Blowhards are what make this place entertaining, which is why you're so popular around here.

LOL so much obvious butt hurt in this thread...did you guys forgot to read:

"...the data should not be used to stereotype or make assumptions about people."

While I believe this so-called "study" to be nothing more than self-fulfilling prophecy hogwash, there was one thing I noticed at the end of Rob's synopsis. I know I saw someone post a copycat thread similar to this, but it's interesting to note that if this study is true,

nymphos have higher IQs.

ROFL

RobsPics wrote:LOL so much obvious butt hurt in this thread...did you guys forgot to read:

"...the data should not be used to stereotype or make assumptions about people."

What that means is this study is complete shit and that there is zero difference between any group