Does the study linking low IQ to conservative beliefs and prejudice used flawed data?

Question

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.

http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html

Answer 1

nope its spot on

Answer 2

PharmD Republican, no longer conservative yet oh nicely. it is like asserting stupid all human beings is dumb. nicely of course stupid all human beings is going to fall for racism between others. additionally IQ isn't a level of intelligence yet somewhat the potential to verify. Even Stephen Hawking would not purchase into IQ tests and he's estimated to have around one hundred seventy five.

Answer 3

No it doesn't use flawed data. It is just the conclusion of a study. It points out that there are prejudicial liberals of low intelligence and intelligent, well educated, open minded conservative too.

Answer 4

Yes....

Yeah.....odd they didn't say how they "scientifically" came up with it.



How about an actual poll that states differently.



Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated



Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.



The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45.



They hold more conservative views on a range of issues than Republicans generally. They are also more likely to describe themselves as “very conservative” and President Obama as “very liberal.”

Source(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/pol…

Answer 5

Tea Partiers are wealthy and well educated but support policies that preserves their own personal wealth. And then the rest of them are often ill-informed. What I've seen alot lately is that the GOP are using dark, forboding ads which generally are SUPER EFFECTIVE! against the less educated / those that don't care. So yawh they are idiots.

Answer 6

It's amazing what "science" and "research" can find out. You can make up anything you want and it will stick to the walls like used toilet paper. Turn a few numbers and you get the results you want, instead of what is there.



Ha ha! LiveScience. These are the same dumb-asses that said gays make better parents than straight people do.

Answer 7

That's kinda funny. Most Conservatives refuse free government hand-outs, obtain sustainable jobs, and donate more to charity than any liberal. Most of the low intelligence adults in my neighborhood live across the street from government housing where they drive up to the welfare office in their SUV's and collect their welfare checks while slinging dope and working on unofficial jobs making more than I do driving a Ford Focus that is breaking down, and I refuse welfare. Why don't you do a study on Conservatives on welfare before posting something like this. We don't take a free meal. We work.

Answer 8

it just explains that stupid people are easily manipulated. And why.



Do you know anyone dumb enough to spend their mortgage money on a new car only to tell their mortgage company they can spend it wiser than them?



How about the white Republican I know on welfare who complains about handouts and democrats. As he lives in a public shelter. On welfare.

Answer 9

Yes a black president really gets them crazy.Can you say tea party.Nothing like a little hate to get the party started.

Answer 10

Absolutely correct

Answer 11

Such a study would obviously reflect what its publisher wanted to claim.



Thumbs down? Yeah, right, like it isn't right there in the Alinsky Lib Guide to Being an @sshole book, attack the source if you don't like what's said.

Answer 12

These kind of "studies" have been used under Stalin to seclude dissidents in Mental Hospitals.



It looks like that some liberal have learned well the Stalin's lessons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union

Answer 13

This kind of comparison is more like the need to know whose is bigger.

Answer 14

stats can be manipulated. but people with no stats are easier to manipulate

Answer 15

First lesson I ever learned in statistics: statistics can show whatever result you want it to show.

Answer 16

You don't sound so swift yourself.