I found a copy of the study Sam was citing. It was very interesting. the author had some very valide criticisms. One thing that was still critical however and the authors provided this data themselves was that when you looked a the studies without the non independence error, as they termed it, there was still a fairly strong association between the frequency and strength of the correlations. Moreover the authors were lumping all sorts of very different studies together, personality with cognition and social factors etc. I could go into more detail but I have other work to do today. Over all its a meh. Not very relevant.
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > But, Sam, that is not what the study is stating, that is what you are > saying it is stating. > > In a nut shell, it says, for the most part, liberals and conservatives have > different political beliefs because their brains are built differently. And > that, for the most part, members of each 'group' seem to have a similar > brain physiology. > > If you get out of that study that 'liberals are smarter' and that > 'conservatives are close minded' then I think maybe you are not really > understanding the results. > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> It's saying liberals are open minded and conservatives are closed >> minded. That's as bad as it gets. But we know for a fact this bogus >> science was just used to back up a bad opinion and has no basis in >> fact. >> >> . >> >> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I do not think the results of the study showed which political opinion >> was >> > 'smarter', rather that differing physiology may explain why the differing >> > opinions exist in the first place. >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:357460 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
