From Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?, by John Cloud in
Time, cited by Stephen Black:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968042,00.html
These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British
team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more
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From: Allen Esterson allenester...@compuserve.com
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:49:26 AM
Subject: Re:[tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More
Allen Esterson wrote:
Oh, dear, the perils of translating from the UK to the US! Do not
conflate the American use of the term liberal with what is meant in
Britain by Liberal.
Although the history of UK's Liberal Democrats has some relevance here,
the problem is translating from the
John Kulig wrote:
Interesting. Even in the US the terms are undergoing transformations. The
current Obama administration (like Clinton's) is nowhere near liberal
compared to Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson.
There's a very good reason that Obama's no FDR. He doesn't have anything
On the other hand, self styled conservatives like Bush and Cheney
worked very hard at avoiding actual combat.
May be more a style of verbal aggression.
On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:38 PM, sbl...@ubishops.ca sbl...@ubishops.ca
wrote:
As a follow-up to my post drawing attention to this paper, I've
Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, bluegrass fiddler.. in
approximate order of importance.
Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent
John Kulig
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:58:05 -0800
Well it's an intriguing hypothesis, and though I usually have
knee-jerk
...is the provocative title of a new study, namely
Kanazawa, S. (2010). Why Liberals and Atheists Are More
Intelligent. _Social Psychology Quarterly_, first published on
February 16 as doi:10.1177/0190272510361602
Abstract ( http://spq.sagepub.com/pap.dtl )
The origin of values and
Of course, Liberals and Atheists are more likely to write the tests
and develop the theories.
And state governors who hike the Appalachian trail and less-than-
faithful golfers seem to be making a disproportionate contribution
to the gene pool.
On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:45 AM, sbl...@ubishops.ca
On 26 Feb 2010 at 12:32, Rick Froman wrote:
Next study...Is there a negative correlation between critical thinking and
intelligence or do people just
have great difficulty (no doubt due to some evolutionary mechanism) thinking
critically about things they
are predisposed to agree with?
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Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent
John Kulig
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:58:05 -0800
Well it's an intriguing hypothesis, and though I usually have
knee-jerk
'yes' responses to anything evolutionary, could it simply be that more
intelligent people think more
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