Perhaps you ought to look what the scientists say about that instead of the politicals. of course for certain members of this list that would mean reading words with more than two syllables and requiring them to actually (GASP!) think.
that said despite any bias, in our society at least IQ is associated with academic achievement, success in careers that require intelligence etc. Besides, data are data. If its found that en mass, IQ across multiple studies or very large sample sets have found a considerable correlation between political attitudes or a particular form of (non)belief, then I suspect that its an accurate reflection of rho, or the relationship within the population. There are other indicators as well, for instance in one meta-analytic study I did years ago, we found that levels of moral reasoning was associated with IQ. As a side study we found that on the average the those following higher state moral reasoning (universal principles) tended to be nonbelievers, while those at lower states (i.e., concrete or social rules type reasoning) were more likely to follow fundimentalist type beliefs. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought liberals always complained about the accuracy of IQ testing > because of its cultural biases. > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Sort of is one of those blindingly obvious things, given the recent crop of >> Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health support >> Kanazawa's hypothesis. Young adults who subjectively identify themselves as >> "very liberal" have an average IQ of 106 during adolescence while those who >> identify themselves as "very conservative" have an average IQ of 95 during >> adolescence > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:327436 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
