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I think it comes down to conservative mindsets being less likely to challenge traditional values and "common sense." Liberals as a rule are supposed to seek social change and progression, and that leads to questioning more assumptions and often more critical thinking.

But as this study points out, there are lots of exceptions both ways. Dadudemon is a filthy "center right" winger or whatever, but he's probably smarter than me in a lot of areas.

I'll also point out that I've known many a liberal in South Florida who has no more grounds for their beliefs than the conservatives I've known in North Florida--in both cases it often comes from what their parents and communities believe, not any beliefs they've formed themselves. I'm proud of the fact that coming from a Republican family in a super Republican area I ended up being rather extremely liberal without coming to resent the conservatives around me. I credit that to a very steady, very gradual change brought about by a long series of questions I asked myself about what I believed.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psyched/200809/conservatives-are-dumber-and-smarter-liberals

http://www.wnd.com/2010/03/127614/

http://therightstuff.biz/2014/11/05/republicans-are-smarter-than-democrats/

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I guess we all could find random links to validate our lives

Yeah, I've seen this before, it was on Huffington post and linked elsewhere.

edit: Found it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/intelligence-study-links-prejudice_n_1237796.html

Definitely interesting and on an anecdotal level, I tend to agree. The majority of intolerant and bigoted people I've met in my long years, were or were more closely associated with right-wing beliefs.

Originally posted by psmith81992
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psyched/200809/conservatives-are-dumber-and-smarter-liberals

http://www.wnd.com/2010/03/127614/

http://therightstuff.biz/2014/11/05/republicans-are-smarter-than-democrats/

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I guess we all could find random links to validate our lives

You're using much older and smaller non peer reviewed studies.

I mean it's obvious that right wingers are dumber than normal people, but are they dumber BECAUSE they are right wingers or the are they right wingers because they are dumb? We don't know...

Originally posted by Bardock42
I mean it's obvious that right wingers are dumber than normal people, but are they dumber BECAUSE they are right wingers or the are they right wingers because they are dumb? We don't know...

Very true, it is a chicken and egg situation.


Originally posted by Robtard
Yeah, I've seen this before, it was on Huffington post and linked elsewhere.

edit: Found it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/intelligence-study-links-prejudice_n_1237796.html

Definitely interesting and on an anecdotal level, I tend to agree. The majority of intolerant and bigoted people I've met in my long years, were or were more closely associated with right-wing beliefs.

So true.

Originally posted by Bardock42
I mean it's obvious that right wingers are dumber than normal people, but are they dumber BECAUSE they are right wingers or the are they right wingers because they are dumb? We don't know...

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Top movie that

Originally posted by Bardock42
Top movie that

Better book. :-)

Originally posted by Knife
Better book. :-)

Eh, idk...

John Cusack is an incredibly underrated actor.

Isn't this nice, all of us agreeing. :')

Originally posted by psmith81992
John Cusack is an incredibly underrated actor.

Yes he is.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Isn't this nice, all of us agreeing. :')

Haha, no, I don't like having to believe right wingers have any redeeming features and are capable of appreciating art Bardock.

And yet it is left wing people that won't let people make cakes anymore.....How odd.

I feel the same way with left wingers and intelligence.

Originally posted by psmith81992
I feel the same way with left wingers and intelligence.

the left has ultra-progressives loonies, i'll grant you. and they can be dangerous, idiotic, and destructive in their own way, like causing outbreaks of disease because they had a big circlejerk and decided that they know more about vaccines than doctors.

with that said, the right has far more gullible simpletons due to the fact that neoconservative and libertarian candidates tend to deliberately and aggressively pander to easily excitable low i.q. voters.

Yeah the left NEVER panders to Stupid People....Now excuse me while I go take the money from all the passed out pot heads in the park.

I'm not certain that intelligence is the main ingredient in all cases. I've found that areas with less diversity are breeding grounds for the ignorant, and less open minded folk around the world. I had a British teacher tell me and the rest of my class, that the first time she saw a Black person, that she ran and hid (she was a child when this happened). This wasn't exactly the dumbest person that you'd typically run into. Just something to think about I guess.

Segregation, mass media (music videos, movies etc) can no doubt lead many people to develop a skewed perspective, or outright fear of something or someone that may appear to be physically different than they are. When I went on a canoe trip far north of Quebec city, we ran into a tribe of Indians that flocked to me as if they were my long lost cousins, but appeared to shun and remain standoffish when they saw my Caucasian friends. Just an example of how similar features can go a long way in changing a persons opinion about another.

I agree with the OP to a certain extent, and it makes me wonder how far the human race in general has actually come? Race, color, sexual preference, and many other trivial things should not be a stumbling block for so many, but it is.

Originally posted by psmith81992
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psyched/200809/conservatives-are-dumber-and-smarter-liberals

http://www.wnd.com/2010/03/127614/

http://therightstuff.biz/2014/11/05/republicans-are-smarter-than-democrats/

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I guess we all could find random links to validate our lives





Indeed.


Then the OP has the nerve to say your links don't count. Only his do. LMFAO.


Liberals are so pathetic.

Originally posted by Flyattractor
And yet it is left wing people that won't let people make cakes anymore.....How odd.

Why they hating on cake? I'd stab a baby for a good piece of cake. Not that I stab babies often. Why are we even talking about stabbing babies? That is sick, this is about cake, which is not sick.

Study links low intelligence with right-wing beliefs.

Bigotry is not a right-wing belief.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison


Bigotry is not a right-wing belief. Not always....... and not exclusively.

Originally posted by Knife
Not always....... and not exclusively.

These people are very right-wing conservative.

http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/

Are they bigots?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
These people are very right-wing conservative.

http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/

Are they bigots? Bigotry is not racially specific, I don't know enough about them to comment.

Ethnic groups with caste systems can be very bigoted for instance.

Originally posted by Surtur
Why they hating on cake? I'd stab a baby for a good piece of cake. Not that I stab babies often. Why are we even talking about stabbing babies? That is sick, this is about cake, which is not sick.

So your saying your not up for an Aborted Baby Cake?

So on topic

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
So on topic

Do NOT bump expired threads- doubly so just to make an attacking point with some feeble backseat moderation.

Next time you do something like this, TI, it is gong on your record, and the time after that it is a ban