Claim: A new Harvard study has shown that liberals have a lower average IQ than conservatives.
FALSE
Origins: On 8 October 2011, the IAHYM News Network web site published a
fictitious article claiming that liberals on average had lower IQs than conservatives.
The article, which held that Harvard University had conducted a study using “100,000 registered voters in 40 different states over the last twelve years,” has been reposted on several web sites over the years since its initial publication, and on 31 March 2015 it was shared as a factual news story on the website Blogster:
While Blogster republished the majority of the satirical IAHYM News Network article, the site failed to include the disclaimer that was included at the bottom of the original version:
Oh yeah, and everything in that bullsh*t 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.
While it might conceivably be true that those positioned at one end of the political spectrum are smarter on average than those at the other end, that notion certainly has not been proved by a fictitious study conducted at Harvard University.
Last updated: 31 March 2015
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