Intelligence significantly increases adult liberalism and atheism

Micawber said:
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
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I cannot speak to the research since I am unfamiliar with it.

But I can say there is a reason that creationists, religious zealots, bigots, white high school dropouts, rural southerners, and other Dummkopfs generally have such an affinity for the Republican Party: It is one of the few political parties I know of in the civilized world that celebrates ignorance and despises scholarly knowledge and scientific expertise.
 
Right said:
You seem to have missed the term "logical fallacy" lol
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No logical fallacy when the observation is of people who denigrate higher education. They never got one. Hence, the GED reference.

Thanks for giving me another chance to out your chronic ignorance.
 
domer76 said:
No logical fallacy when the observation is of people who denigrate higher education. They never got one. Hence, the GED reference.

Thanks for giving me another chance to out your chronic ignorance.
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Apparently you didn't understand your mistake that I tried to point out subtly, so let me be more direct.


ad hominem
You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument.
Ad hominem attacks can take the form of overtly attacking somebody, or more subtly casting doubt on their character or personal attributes as a way to discredit their argument. The result of an ad hom attack can be to undermine someone's case without actually having to engage with it.
Example: After Sally presents an eloquent and compelling case for a more equitable taxation system, Sam asks the audience whether we should believe anything from a woman who isn't married, was once arrested, and smells a bit weird.
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https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
 
domer76 said:
From the Genomics Research Centre:

Humans are born with 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs. The X and Y chromosomes determine a person’s sex. Most women are 46XX and most men are 46XY. Research suggests, however, that in a few births per thousand some individuals will be born with a single sex chromosome (45X or 45Y) (sex monosomies) and some with three or more sex chromosomes (47XXX, 47XYY or 47XXY, etc.) (sex polysomies). In addition, some males are born 46XX due to the translocation of a tiny section of the sex determining region of the Y chromosome. Similarly some females are also born 46XY due to mutations in the Y chromosome. Clearly, there are not only females who are XX and males who are XY, but rather, there is a range of chromosome complements, hormone balances, and phenotypic variations that determine sex.

http://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html
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So they are freaks?

Thanks
 
The Sage of Main Street said:
A Diploma Is a Participation Trophy

No, Diploma Dumbos are worse. At least the hillbillies know what they know, while mind-slaves who run away to college only think they know what they know. The phrase we are told to repeat, "Smart in School, Dumb in Real Life" is a typically misleading half-truth. Most college graduates are dumb in school; cramming for exams only gives temporary knowledge. They come out of their indentured-sevitude ordeal with a 6th Grader's knowledge of grammar, history, and logic.
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Well, if it makes you happier to believe this guff, believe you. No exploitive system such as this could possibly continue unless the hillbillies and their like were so brainwashed they have difficulty in moving their own feet. 'Real life' under capitalism means licking the boss's arse, as you know.
 
I Love America said:
So they are freaks?

Thanks
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That was response to post #36, idiot, where another uninformed person (much like you) made a stupid post (just like you). And, just like you, the fucktard refuses to do any homework to try to learn anything.

Once again, thanks for the opportunity for me to reveal your stupidity.
 
domer76 said:
Apparently, you fail to understand my reference to people who denigrate higher education.

THEY DIDN'T GET ONE.

Why is that so difficult for you to understand?
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Why is it difficult for you to understand that claiming such isn't a logical fallacy lol
 
Micawber said:
The pay differential between college grads and not proves you wrong.
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That proves nothing about whether they deserve their pay. College "education" is for no-talent brownnoses. If students aren't paid a salary there, they aren't worth anything. It puts inferior people in superior positions. The people under them, and the economy in general, have to suffer under the bootlickers' incompetence. Their bosses are on an ego trip; they don't care about talent, only about how much someone has humiliated himself in order to make money for them.

You probably know that; it is too obviously logical to miss. So what you're really saying is that "Here's a way to cheat, and you're a fool if you don't." But I saw it as being in a situation like if you lived on bread and water for four years, you could eat free in gourmet restaurants the rest of your life. The permanent indigestion caused by the sacrifice would ruin the reward.
 
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Micawber said:
All those subjects are available in college. Plus if the go to college, they definitionally have achieved 12th grade skills. I think your student loan debt burden has made you bitter.
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"Do As I Say, Not As I Do"

I can tell by your desperately bossy attitude that you don't deserve your job. You stole it from someone with more talent who had too much self-respect to permanently cripple his personality because of college's class-biased indentured servitude. The plutocratic parasites who impose this unfunded mandate better give college students the same adult allowance and paid-up tuition they give to their sons, or some day, when those who have talent have pride, too, we will make sure those spoiled brats never graduate.
 
The Sage of Main Street said:
That proves nothing about whether they deserve their pay. College "education" is for no-talent brownnoses. If students aren't paid a salary there, they aren't worth anything. It puts inferior people in superior positions. The people under them, and the economy in general, have to suffer under the bootlickers' incompetence. Their bosses are on an ego trip; they don't care about talent, only about how much someone has humiliated himself in order to make money for them.

You probably know that; it is too obviously logical to miss. So what you're really saying is that "Here's a way to cheat, and you're a fool if you don't." But I saw it as being in a situation like if you lived on bread and water for four years, you could eat free in gourmet restaurants the rest of your life. The permanent indigestion caused by the sacrifice would ruin the reward.
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I'm unpersuaded that my simple point isn't better than your convoluted mental gymnastics.
 
Micawber said:
I'm unpersuaded that my simple point isn't better than your convoluted mental gymnastics.
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College Is for Coolies

Well, I got to admit, you beat me on the jungle-bars gymnastics. If you believe in this insulting and slavish college "education," you obviously believe that whoever roars the loudest knows what's best for us.
 
The Sage of Main Street said:
That proves nothing about whether they deserve their pay. College "education" is for no-talent brownnoses. If students aren't paid a salary there, they aren't worth anything. It puts inferior people in superior positions. The people under them, and the economy in general, have to suffer under the bootlickers' incompetence. Their bosses are on an ego trip; they don't care about talent, only about how much someone has humiliated himself in order to make money for them.

You probably know that; it is too obviously logical to miss. So what you're really saying is that "Here's a way to cheat, and you're a fool if you don't." But I saw it as being in a situation like if you lived on bread and water for four years, you could eat free in gourmet restaurants the rest of your life. The permanent indigestion caused by the sacrifice would ruin the reward.
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Hey retard, let me break it down for you;

There is a stream of wealth, it is well guarded. The rich will do anything they can to protect their wealth and one of the many barriers designed to keep the masses as peasants is higher education.
So rejoice in your self chosen poverty, idiot, and by all means, council your kinsfolk the same, but don't presume to think that you are wise and your theory is logical because neither is true.
 
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