• Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
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[QUOTE=Pepin;34417696]more liberal people seem to have a tremendous amount of prejudiced against religious or conservative people[/QUOTE] prejudice against someone for their views really isn't the same as prejudice against people due to skin colour or gender and so on
[QUOTE=Last or First;34420255]Proof: Social conservatism is an idiotic (or morally wrong) belief. People who believe idiotic things are themselves idiotic, otherwise they wouldn't believe it. (At least in terms of the subject matter.) (People who believe morally wrong things for morally wrong reasons are morally wrong.) Therefore, people who believe in social conservatism are idiotic. Or bad people. Take your pick.[/QUOTE] There are ugly people in the world People who don't believe they are ugly, are ugly. Therefor everyone on the Internets ugly. [QUOTE=znk666;34420108]Social conservatives are all morons. It's not a generalization.[/QUOTE] People on the internet are all ugly. It's not a generalization. Logics fun
correlation doesn't equal causation you fuckasses also iq is bullshit anyway, this is just a pretentious study that senselessly bashes the shit out of conservatives in a pseudo-intellectual disguise while giving way to publicity under the guise of SCIENCE "hey guys look at our SCIENCE lmao conservatives are fucking morons but we all knew this anyway BUT NOW IT'S SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN" [editline]27th January 2012[/editline] politics is just an excuse for people to bitch about their opinions anyway "YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY A MORON FOR THINKING THAT WE DIDN'T EVOLVE" so what if people have differing opinions it doesn't make them any dumber than you for thinking you're an authority on this shit
Pretty much any science, entertainment, news, or pop culture site or magazine or channel will always be perceived as "liberally biased", and thus acquire liberal audience. So it's funny when said things don't even attempt to make themselves sound neutral, when they know majority of their audience is not conservative at all.
su-fucking-prise
[QUOTE=Regulas021;34421753]I really wish there was better distinction between socially conservative and all other forms of conservative The die hard Republicans I know support legalizing gay marriage and don't really care about drugs, it's just that they don't see those as defining issues that would alter who they vote for (which is why conservative candidates pander to the religious right, who do)[/QUOTE] If you read the article social conservatism is the only thing they were looking for a comparison with, not fiscal conservatism. [quote]Social conservatives were defined as people who agreed with a laundry list of statements such as "Family life suffers if mum is working full-time," and "Schools should teach children to obey authority."[/quote]
[QUOTE=Pepin;34417696][b]I took an IQ test and scored a 138. Because of this I'm pretty skeptical of them.[/b] 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.[/QUOTE] If you really had an IQ of 138 you'd likely realize that one exception does not cancel out a trend
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34423591]If you really had an IQ of 138 you'd likely realize that one exception does not cancel out a trend[/QUOTE] Think about what you just said again It's a paradox
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34423591]If you really had an IQ of 138 you'd likely realize that one exception does not cancel out a trend[/QUOTE] Really not sure what you're saying. Could you be more specific?
[QUOTE=Pepin;34423918]Really not sure what you're saying. Could you be more specific?[/QUOTE] He's saying that if you were actually smart you'd be able to realize that you being stupid and scoring a high IQ doesn't mean IQ isn't correlated to intelligence. Which is a paradox, because if you were smart you wouldn't be an exception in the first place. So basically he's saying you're an idiot
This just in, if you are a liberal you are smarter than conservatives!11 But in all seriousness, this is a pretty interesting article. It makes sense that less intelligent people would believe the "conservative values" and deny other things that are "logical". I won't even go into religion as that would cause a huge shit storm.
[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy16;34423957]He's saying that if you were actually smart you'd be able to realize that you being stupid and scoring a high IQ doesn't mean IQ isn't correlated to intelligence. Which is a paradox, because if you were smart you wouldn't be an exception in the first place. So basically he's saying you're an idiot[/QUOTE] I wasn't calling him an idiot, I was saying he's exaggerating Or I was saying that IQ tests mean jack-shit
[QUOTE=Pepin;34417696]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, [B]more liberal people seem to have a tremendous amount of prejudiced against religious or conservative people[/B]. 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.[/QUOTE] disdain =/= prejudice
[QUOTE=James*;34423160]prejudice against someone for their views really isn't the same as prejudice against people due to skin colour or gender and so on[/QUOTE] This. and I love how Pepin comes in here waving his IQ score around expecting us to be impressed(because IQ tests mean so much about how smart someone really is) and then thinks that disdain over political views is the same as discrimination by race, gender or sexual preference . He is such a special little babby.
[QUOTE=DeadKiller987;34416205]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.[/QUOTE] Not really. If everyone (EVERYONE) had equal rights, everyone was paid the same, healthcare was free and effective, the law was entirely fair and just, we had no war, all of our power was clean, efficient, safe, and easy to get, and all of those tick boxes that most people would put down in their 'perfect world' list were ticked... why would you need to change? You'd want to 'conserve' that state. In terms of social policies I'd say there IS a perfect point that you can reach, and that's the point when every single person is happy at the way they're treated by the rest of society. When you've hit that point, when everybody is entirely happy about the social policies surrounding themselves, then there's not really any point in changing anything (unless it can be made slightly better).
[QUOTE=sltungle;34427337]Not really. If everyone (EVERYONE) had equal rights, everyone was paid the same, healthcare was free and effective, the law was entirely fair and just, we had no war, all of our power was clean, efficient, safe, and easy to get, and all of those tick boxes that most people would put down in their 'perfect world' list were ticked... why would you need to change? You'd want to 'conserve' that state. In terms of social policies I'd say there IS a perfect point that you can reach, and that's the point when every single person is happy at the way they're treated by the rest of society. When you've hit that point, when everybody is entirely happy about the social policies surrounding themselves, then there's not really any point in changing anything (unless it can be made slightly better).[/QUOTE] If everyone would be paid the-same everyone would not do shit and see you are too far left now. The perfect world is a mix of left and right.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;34421579]Provide an example when social conservative laws would be for the betterment of all people[/QUOTE] [I]Have been[/I] or [I]would be?[/I] Because "would be" is really fucking easy, just take any situation wherein enough of a populace desire something we're all socially conservative about. That's, like, bad-argument city right there, because I can just whop out something ridiculous like "a lobby seeks to legalize pedophilia via a statutory loophole, and congress enacts a 'it's totally not okay to have sex with children' act".
Ain't that a kick in the head.
i still don't even know what to think of this
It does seem like a pretty clear tendency. I wouldn't generalize all social conservatives that way though since I know plenty that aren't racist or homophobic or whatever.
[QUOTE=Civil;34428128]If everyone would be paid the-same everyone would not do shit and see you are too far left now. The perfect world is a mix of left and right.[/QUOTE] What? If we had that kind of state people don't [I]need[/I] to do anything. People seem to forget one of the important factors of Marxism was material superabundance. There are plenty more opinions than the terrible 'left and right' spectrum
[QUOTE=teslacoil;34413822]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".[/QUOTE] Reality is liberal propaganda.
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