Intelligence significantly increases adult liberalism and atheism

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Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent
Satoshi Kanazawa
First Published February 16, 2010
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Abstract
The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences (such as liberalism and atheism and, for men, sexual exclusivity) than less intelligent individuals, but that general intelligence may have no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values (for children, marriage, family, and friends). The analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Study 1) and the General Social Surveys (Study 2) show that adolescent and adult intelligence significantly increases adult liberalism, atheism, and men’s (but not women’s) value on sexual exclusivity.

References
Ackerman Phillip L., Heggestad Eric D. 1997. “Intelligence, Personality, and Interests: Evidence for Overlapping Traits.” Psychological Bulletin 121:219–45. Google Scholar Medline
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Zagar Robert, Mead John D. 1983. “Analysis of Short Test Battery for Children.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 39:590–7. Google Scholar
 
The analyses of the Add Health and GSS data confirm all the predictions derived from the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis. For example, net of age, sex, race, education, earnings, and religion, more intelligent children are significantly more likely to grow up to be liberal seven years later. Even though past studies show that women are more liberal than men, and blacks are more liberal than whites, the analyses show that the effect of adolescent intelligence on adult political ideology is twice as large as the effect of either sex or race.

Similarly, net of the same control variables, more intelligent individuals are significantly more likely to grow up to be atheist seven years later.

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a better way of looking at it is that being intelligent will typically lead you to atheism, but that atheism in of itself doesn't mean you are intelligent. It's not really an einsteinian notion that there isn't an invisible man that knows everything about you.
 
Hot girls in my avatar said:
a better way of looking at it is that being intelligent will typically lead you to atheism, but that atheism in of itself doesn't mean you are intelligent. It's not really an einsteinian notion that there isn't an invisible man that knows everything about you.
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Well I think the "study" was, insofar as the religiosity aspect is concerned, premised on intelligence making it possible to break out of conventional thought patterns and those sociologically jammed down one's throats, and ability to apprehend ideas that are not evidenced in prior history. So the argument went that since historically religiosity had been replete, and atheism novel and recent (and heretofore coterminous with Marxist countries), intelligence is higher among those with whom it takes.

But in reality it is simply a fun way to poke at religious people by lending an idea we all pretty much know to be true the trappings of science. Religious conservatives are instructed that they should be tired of being looked down upon, so may as well make them exhausted. Maybe there is a science article on the antipathy towards political correctness among the dumb.
 
Micawber said:
Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent
Satoshi Kanazawa
First Published February 16, 2010
PDF download for Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent Article Information
Article has an altmetric score of 221 No Access
Abstract
The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences (such as liberalism and atheism and, for men, sexual exclusivity) than less intelligent individuals, but that general intelligence may have no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values (for children, marriage, family, and friends). The analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Study 1) and the General Social Surveys (Study 2) show that adolescent and adult intelligence significantly increases adult liberalism, atheism, and men’s (but not women’s) value on sexual exclusivity.

References
Ackerman Phillip L., Heggestad Eric D. 1997. “Intelligence, Personality, and Interests: Evidence for Overlapping Traits.” Psychological Bulletin 121:219–45. Google Scholar Medline
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Zagar Robert, Mead John D. 1983. “Analysis of Short Test Battery for Children.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 39:590–7. Google Scholar
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Liberals (Leftists) and atheists (anti-theists) are arrogant, indifferent, ego centric and paranoid.

So even though they are more "intelligent", they're really a lot dumber. lol.
 
All stupid people believe many stupid things, whereas intelligent people tend to believe slightly fewer, depending on background.
 
See, I love threads like this because it further proves why leftists have zero right to any kind of power or influence within a civilized society.
 
iolo said:
All stupid people believe many stupid things, whereas intelligent people tend to believe slightly fewer, depending on background.
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You just believe in world wide communism and goat worship. That must make you the smartest slave in the world.
 
Granule said:
You just believe in world wide communism and goat worship. That must make you the smartest slave in the world.
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I'm afraid, child, that you are as pissed as a newt. Your mommy will smack you for stealing her gin. Go back to your cot and sleep it off!
 
Micawber said:
Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent
Satoshi Kanazawa
First Published February 16, 2010
PDF download for Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent Article Information
Article has an altmetric score of 221 No Access
Abstract
The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences (such as liberalism and atheism and, for men, sexual exclusivity) than less intelligent individuals, but that general intelligence may have no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values (for children, marriage, family, and friends). The analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Study 1) and the General Social Surveys (Study 2) show that adolescent and adult intelligence significantly increases adult liberalism, atheism, and men’s (but not women’s) value on sexual exclusivity.

References
Ackerman Phillip L., Heggestad Eric D. 1997. “Intelligence, Personality, and Interests: Evidence for Overlapping Traits.” Psychological Bulletin 121:219–45. Google Scholar Medline
......f
Zagar Robert, Mead John D. 1983. “Analysis of Short Test Battery for Children.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 39:590–7. Google Scholar
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Ignoring the religion argument, some smart people think that they know how to spend my money better than I do. That's just dumb.
 
Granule said:
Liberals (Leftists) and atheists (anti-theists) are arrogant, indifferent, ego centric and paranoid.

So even though they are more "intelligent", they're really a lot dumber. lol.
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Where Brains Go to Be Washed

No matter what IQ you were born with, you stop using it once you believe in the absurdity of getting a job just because you can go four or more years without a job, which is all college "education" means. In college, you live like a child. So you wind up with the mind of a child. Any talent you had going in atrophies because of robotic parroting of what your father figure professors spoon feed you. Liberalism is a mental disability that arises from that mind-raping.
 
The Sage of Main Street said:
Where Brains Go to Be Washed

No matter what IQ you were born with, you stop using it once you believe in the absurdity of getting a job just because you can go four or more years without a job, which is all college "education" means. In college, you live like a child. So you wind up with the mind of a child. Any talent you had going in atrophies because of robotic parroting of what your father figure professors spoon feed you. Liberalism is a mental disability that arises from that mind-raping.
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Uh, but before college you literally do live like a child and have a father figure spoon feed you thoughts. College is broadening compared to that. At least you have new influences and academic rigor.
 
The Sage of Main Street said:
Where Brains Go to Be Washed

No matter what IQ you were born with, you stop using it once you believe in the absurdity of getting a job just because you can go four or more years without a job, which is all college "education" means. In college, you live like a child. So you wind up with the mind of a child. Any talent you had going in atrophies because of robotic parroting of what your father figure professors spoon feed you. Liberalism is a mental disability that arises from that mind-raping.
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lol

Feeling bad that you only got your GED?
 
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