A study conducted in Germany found that men with higher IQs are less inclined to traditional values, but the lead author, psychologist and intelligence researcher Maximilian Krolo of Saarland University, said the researchers did not find these differences among women.
Duh
Aaah a feel-good article for leftists.
Plenty of dumb dumbs among us, don’t worry.
Sure, but perhaps take solace that we’re less deliberately hateful and that stupidity isn’t celebrated as it is among the arch conservatives?
Don’t worry. Let a non dumb dumb explain.
There are many causality relationship kinds.
- Leftist -> big IQ: being leftist makes someone have big IQ
- Leftist <- big IQ: having big IQ makes someone a leftist.
- Leftist <-> big IQ: both 1 and 2. That is, saying “I am a leftist” and saying “I have big IQ” is the same, since one causes the other.
- Third parameter -> leftist AND third parameter -> big IQ: there is something that causes both being leftist and having big IQ.
In case 1, all leftists have big IQ. But NOT all big IQ ppl are leftist.
In case 2, all big IQ ppl are leftist. But NOT all leftists have big IQ.
In case 3, all big IQ ppl are leftist, and all leftists have big IQ.
In case 4, some NOT all leftist have big IQ. And NOT all big IQ ppl are leftist. But some are.
Assuming having big IQ is desirable, leftists would want either case 1 or 3. Since that would mean they have a big IQ.
However, the headline seems to suggest case 2. And in reality. And it could still be case 4.
Of course, in reality there is an uncountable number of parameters, not just 3, so don’t take the “all” in my comment as literally “all”. Reality probably resembles more case 4.
If this were a feel-good article for leftists, the headline would suggest case 1 or 3. Since that is what leftists want.
Even assuming the best case scenario of case 2 where all big IQ people are leftists. If you define big IQ as “top 10%” and low IQ as “not big IQ”: it is technically possible for 90% of leftists to be low IQ. And if low IQ is 50-50 leftist-conservative, 78% of leftists would be low IQ.
what about big PP tho?
Could be the third parameter that causes both leftism and big IQ.
Someone would need to do the study on that to be sure though.
Aaah a feel-good article for leftists.
Eh. I don’t feel particularly good that I’m surrounded by conservative idiots.
Here’s a link to the paper, so you don’t have to read an article about an article.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000893
Fuck IQ. Literally political stance is a better measurement of intelligence.
Wait…
“My social media isn’t an echo chamber”
This is because reality itself has a strong left-leaning bias, and intelligence makes you encounter that a lot more as you interact with reality.
Sure, there are highly intelligent right-wingers, but intelligence only gives you the cognitive tools to discover reality, it doesn’t force you to use them. Just because a person is intelligent doesn’t mean they can’t slide off into wharrderp fantasy land.
I’m bucking the trend
Options: More conservative or lower IQ
Implication: Option #2
Secondary analysis: Good person
Interaction behavior: Amicable, but simple
Thanks, youre pretty swell yourself :).
I like to say that I am smart enough to know im not :D, but, at least I like progressive policies.
horseshoe axiom tells us this is also true of the far left
the peer reviewed and reproduced lemmy experiment corroborates this theory
Not much reproduction happening here
Men with high net worth are more conservative leaning?! Isn’t that weird. Learning about the world builds compassion, while feeding your own greed breeds self interest. So weird. Remind me why we ask the opinions of rich people again?
I will count of the list of Conservative scientists:
End of list
A fact so obvious and apparent only a German would even bother asking.
I’m going to ignore all the issues with this study, and just be happy there are people out there finding the data that shows conservatism is stupidity.
Yeah, well, I’ve never felt smarter than when conversing with a conservative.
…and are cunning linguists too!
hello ladies
Okay but I’m not smart.
Knowing you aren’t smart makes you smarter than all the people who think they are smart but actually aren’t.
So IQ is still a valid measuring method is it?
The criteria for what counts as “valid measure method” is not “metrics that would make your ingroup look good”.
Why would it not?
That’s saying we don’t force a single test on the entire planet’s population…
Which we wouldn’t do for anything.
It doesn’t make IQ tests worthless, and the only way someone could make that leap to think they are, is if they don’t know anything about testing
For one reason, IQ tests rely heavily on logic puzzles. Studies have shown these can be improved on with practice, so the test isn’t necessarily measuring anything innate. It’s just testing whether one has familiarity with logic puzzles. Which, coincidentally is more likely to be the case if one happens to be white and especially if you’re wealthy.
so… ones ability to interpret, quickly react, apply knowledge, and intelligence is not the best? sound like a fairly good marker to me.
The point is that you get better at it with practice. IQ tests claim to measure objective “intelligence” as trait that is independent of education, advantage, or other factors. But if a large portion of the test involves exercises that can be improved with practice, IQ cannot be an objective measure.
so its good if you don’t practice then?
No, I’m sorry but none of that is uncontrollable
Sure, by using a different measure of intelligence than IQ.
I mean…
I took a Weschler and a college class on testing methods taught by the head of my university’s psych department…
How much do you know about quantying intelligence?
Did you read a blog post?
