04-02-2015, 07:11
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New Study Reveals Liberals have a Lower average IQ than Conservatives
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04-02-2015, 07:17
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Did you read the full article? it was published April 1st and looks to be an April Fool's Joke. This should likely be moved to the Comedy Zone...
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Originally Posted by The article:
Subjects of the study were chosen at random and requested to come to an unmarked van to take a test and answer some questions for a reasonable amount of money.
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Awesome research practices at work there - I think anyone who entered an unmarked van should immediately have their IQ test results dropped by 50 points. 
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04-02-2015, 07:33
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I too would strongly suspect an April Fool's Joke.
Goes to reinforce the adage "you can fool some of the people all of the time; you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time".
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04-02-2015, 07:54
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The original article was posted in 2011.
At the bottom of the original is this note from the article's author:
Oh yeah, and everything in that bullshit you just read is completely and totally false. There has been no such conclusive study, and all of the “Finds” are based on public paranoia. Chances are good that if you are a conservative, you were empowered by this new find. If you, even for a second, thought this find might be true, you are probably an idiot.
https://iahymnewsnetwork.wordpress.c...hor/iahymnews/
I moved it to The Comedy Zone. 
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04-02-2015, 14:11
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I do believe that last year it was reversed. 
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04-02-2015, 14:24
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Every couple of months
Every couple of months Libs pass around a new "study" about how stupid conservatives are, how stupid Fox News watchers are, etc, etc, etc.
Lets face it - to Libs they're the smartest things around.
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04-06-2015, 15:33
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This is true.
For those interested in what unrecognized bias can do to a study, read “Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact” in the March 2015 issue of Psychological Science.
From the "study":
"Individuals with lower cognitive abilities may gravitate toward more socially conservative right-wing ideologies that maintain the status quo and provide psychological stability and a sense of order”. They say that this “is consistent with findings that less intelligent children come to endorse more socially conservative ideologies as adults”.
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I thought the low-information voters were libs?
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04-06-2015, 16:26
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My take is that the guy who wrote the study that Doc references is confused as to just what cognitive means. He definitely has it all bassackwards.
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