(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @07:08AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday July 02 2020, @07:08AM (#1015299)
You may be disappointed to discover that both conscientiousness and a favorable attitude towards regulation have both been correlated quite strongly with lower IQs. Though you may be happy to discover that favorable attitudes towards social liberalism are also strongly correlated with higher IQs.
These are all fairly recent discoveries which confound previously works on 'conservative' vs 'liberal' studies. The reason being that contemporary liberal ideology tends to encompass social liberalism = high IQ as well as well as greater regulation = low IQ. And obviously vice versa for contemporary conservatism. This is likely a part of the reason that the results were so inconsistent. Incidentally libertarianism encompasses the values of social liberalism = high IQ, minimal regulation = high IQ, and freedom over conscientiousness = high IQ.
There's also an issue of age bias in older studies. In my life I've found one old saying to be unfortunately true: "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain." I expect you'd find a rather different distributions of cognitive abilities in looking at older vs younger conservatives and liberals. Views change over time - yet many studies are carried out primarily on college age volunteers in psychology departments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @07:08AM
You may be disappointed to discover that both conscientiousness and a favorable attitude towards regulation have both been correlated quite strongly with lower IQs. Though you may be happy to discover that favorable attitudes towards social liberalism are also strongly correlated with higher IQs.
These are all fairly recent discoveries which confound previously works on 'conservative' vs 'liberal' studies. The reason being that contemporary liberal ideology tends to encompass social liberalism = high IQ as well as well as greater regulation = low IQ. And obviously vice versa for contemporary conservatism. This is likely a part of the reason that the results were so inconsistent. Incidentally libertarianism encompasses the values of social liberalism = high IQ, minimal regulation = high IQ, and freedom over conscientiousness = high IQ.
There's also an issue of age bias in older studies. In my life I've found one old saying to be unfortunately true: "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain." I expect you'd find a rather different distributions of cognitive abilities in looking at older vs younger conservatives and liberals. Views change over time - yet many studies are carried out primarily on college age volunteers in psychology departments.