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There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience."Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood," he said.Controversy aheadThe findings combine three hot-button topics."They've pulled off the trifecta of controversial topics," said Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study. "When one selects intelligence, political ideology and racism and looks at any of the relationships between those three variables, it's bound to upset somebody."Polling data and social and political science research do show that prejudice is more common in those who hold right-wing ideals that those of other political persuasions, Nosek told LiveScience."The unique contribution here is trying to make some progress on the most challenging aspect of this," Nosek said, referring to the new study. "It's not that a relationship like that exists, but why it exists."[/quote]
Source and additional info: [URL]http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html[/URL]
You needed research to figure that out?
rofl
Old news, didn't need a study for it
While this has always been pretty apparent if you so much as thought about it, atleast there's an article we can point to in an argument over the internet.
[editline]27th January 2012[/editline]
Also, this must be more "liberal propaganda".
Well.. When you've got beliefs that are technically regressive, I'm not surprised. A lot of them just seem to hate the term "human progress".
what is this, /pol/?
Well no shit.
Why do you think students are historically left leaning?
That's because the "mob" so to speak in history has always been susceptible to propaganda, whilst the educated classes was more resistant. Look, what I'm trying to say is, the American plebians are brainwashed from fox news and its beliefs - such as the enmification of Muslims.
in other news the sky is blue and ducks go quack
Science at work, backing the smart people up in arguments.
In other news, scientific studies have confirmed that water is wet.
[QUOTE=Notanything;34413865]Well.. When you're got beliefs that are technically regressive, I'm not surprised. A lot of them just seem to hate the term "human progress".[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say that conservatism is technically 'regressive' - EVERYONE is conservative in the end because everyone has an idea of what the 'perfect' world is; when that perfect state is reached you wouldn't want anything to change, and thus you'd be 'conservative'. Conservatism is just maintaining the status quo, not necessarily going backwards.
That said, parties that we see as 'highly conservative' (like the Republican party) ARE backwards morons.
[QUOTE=TalonAran;34414356]In other news, scientific studies have confirmed that water is wet.[/QUOTE]
We're making exciting discoveries already bro
I mean just last week CERN discovered ice is cold and that Barry White was a baritone
this whole article is silly and baseless.
[QUOTE=J!NX;34413761]You needed research to figure that out?
rofl[/QUOTE]
You need research for it to be accepted in the world as true, because people don't like to believe things unless there is a study proving it.
[QUOTE=coolsteve;34414604]this whole article is silly and baseless.[/QUOTE]
That won't stop people from believing it though.
Liberals are of course the "progressive" party, amIrite?
[QUOTE=sltungle;34414412]I wouldn't say that conservatism is technically 'regressive' - EVERYONE is conservative in the end because everyone has an idea of what the 'perfect' world is; when that perfect state is reached you wouldn't want anything to change, and thus you'd be 'conservative'. Conservatism is just maintaining the status quo, not necessarily going backwards.
That said, parties that we see as 'highly conservative' (like the Republican party) ARE backwards morons.[/QUOTE]
But then conservatism is basically in definition trying to keep something to same, or to an extent is it not? Aren't these all collectively the same people who demonize people of different sexual preferences and criticize others for not following their definition of "family values" and religious tendencies? Maybe I'm mixing things up. Regardless, these all seem like things that would be fitting for an older era when it was normal for people to think that way.
The problem is in this contemporary period, a lot of old values are inevitably rendered obsolete, so nothing stays, and should stay the same forever. Otherwise we'd probably still be demeaning women and other ethnic groups. Perhaps for the sake of "staying the same". Of course, I'm not saying that all these people would do, or want to do something like that, but that seems to be the inherent flaw with such an ideology. But correct me if I'm wrong, I won't lie, I really don't have a very in-depth knowledge of all political ideologies to their core, and initial conception. I just don't like it when ANY political party does something that can be considered regressive on the stance of progress as a whole towards humanity.
[QUOTE=sltungle;34414412]I wouldn't say that conservatism is technically 'regressive' - EVERYONE is conservative in the end because everyone has an idea of what the 'perfect' world is; when that perfect state is reached you wouldn't want anything to change, and thus you'd be 'conservative'. Conservatism is just maintaining the status quo, not necessarily going backwards.
That said, parties that we see as 'highly conservative' (like the Republican party) ARE backwards morons.[/QUOTE]
What ARE you talking about. There is no 'perfect' world. People need to change and adapt to survive all the time. It's going to be like this forever. If we establish a 'perfect' government and someone comes up with a better idea, we should change to that. There is no perfect.
In other news, Air is good and cancer kills.
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs might correlate with eachother but there is no definite security that it causes it. We also need a good definition for intelligence, there are many interpretations for it.
Grass grows, birds fly, and brotha social conservatives are stupid.
[QUOTE=junker|154;34416292]Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs might correlate with eachother but there is no definite security that it causes it. We also need a good definition for intelligence, there are many interpretations for it.[/QUOTE]
I thought IQ was already a good definition of intelligence, or at the very least the ability to grasp it.
IQ is mostly used today to define "intelligence" and measure it. It has been changed and developed over the years. It is a decent method to measure the "intelligence".
But there are tons of definitions about intelligence. Ability to learn new things quickly, ability to be efficent and fast in a certain task, ability to be creative, being thoughtful and a rational thinker. There are many factors that come into play, the amount of information that can be processed and saved in your mind.
For most people intelligence is the ability to quickly learn new things and use them in particular situations or in problem solving.
I took an IQ test and scored a 138. Because of this I'm pretty skeptical of them.
As far as this study, I think there a lot of factors at play and a lot of ways that it can be looked at. Though I wonder what prejudiced would be defined as because from my observations, more liberal people seem to have a tremendous amount of prejudiced against religious or conservative people. This could just depend on location though, because I've heard it is the polar opposite more down south.
I can certainly see low IQ being linked to prejudice.
Luckily, conservatives don't believe in studies.
Yeah, there is never a monocausal explanation for anything. Maybe some other variables are linked to this phenomena. But this proposed theory makes sense, but usually there are simply more factors that are being combined. Low IQ are probably one of them.
I have to admit, I generally find myself thinking that people who vote conservative are either dumb poor people or greedy rich fucks.
[QUOTE=teslacoil;34413822]Also, this must be more "liberal propaganda".[/QUOTE]
Reality has a liberal bias.
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