Yes, really. A red flag should be raised and we should ALL consider the possibility that this type of study would suffer from the same type of taint that - oh, let's say, a highly praised study of the alleged effectiveness of abstinence education would raise. Or the ones that claim to confirm that religious folk are more likely to give to charity etc.
And please stay away from the anecdotes about sexual exclusivity. As with the abstinence studies, people can tell you all kinds of stuff that isn't true. And for every South Carolina governor there's a John Edwards, a John Kennedy etc. I think the problem is that liberal or conservative, male or female, sexual exclusivity is a fairly challenging goal from an evolutionary standpoint. This type of study requires even MORE scrutiny than we'd give the ones about abstinence, religiosity, etc. The more the conclusions appeal to us, the closer we should look. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College -----Original Message----- From: Rick Froman <rfro...@jbu.edu> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Sent: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 9:32 am Subject: RE: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent Next study...Is there a negative correlation between critical thinking and ntelligence or do people just have great difficulty (no doubt due to some volutionary mechanism) thinking critically about things they are predisposed to gree with? Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair ivision of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055 7295 fro...@jbu.edu ttp://tinyurl.com/DrFroman Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought o his steps." ----Original Message----- rom: sbl...@ubishops.ca [mailto:sbl...@ubishops.ca] ent: Friday, February 26, 2010 9:45 AM o: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) ubject: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent ...is the provocative title of a new study, namely Kanazawa, S. (2010). Why Liberals and Atheists Are More ntelligent. _Social Psychology Quarterly_, first published on ebruary 16 as doi:10.1177/0190272510361602 Abstract ( http://spq.sagepub.com/pap.dtl ) he origin of values and preferences is an unresolved heoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The avanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna rinciple and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, uggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to cquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and references (such as liberalism and atheism and, for men, exual exclusivity) than less intelligent individuals, but that eneral intelligence may have no effect on the acquisition and spousal of evolutionarily familiar values (for children, marriage, amily, and friends). The analyses of the National Longitudinal tudy of Adolescent Health (Study 1) and the General Social urveys (Study 2) show that adolescent and adult intelligence ignificantly increases adult liberalism, atheism, and men´s (but ot women´s) value on sexual exclusivity. News item on it here: ttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132655.h m or http://tinyurl.com/y9racoq It should not escape your notice that the theory and results imply hat state governors who hike the Appalachian trail and less- han-faithful golfers may not be the sharpest knifes in the rawer. But you already knew that. >From the news report, it seems that the author favours the nterpretation of this correlation that high IQ causes the political, eligious, and sexual preferences. Of course, it may be that volution (i.e. genetics) is responsible for all of them. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- tephen L. Black, Ph.D. rofessor of Psychology, Emeritus ishop's University -mail: sblack at ubishops.ca 600 College St. herbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 anada ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ou are currently subscribed to tips as: rfro...@jbu.edu. o unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=902 r send a blank email to leave-902-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- ou are currently subscribed to tips as: drna...@aol.com. o unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=12993.aba36cc3760e0b1c6a655f019a68b878&n=T&l=tips&o=905 r send a blank email to leave-905-12993.aba36cc3760e0b1c6a655f019a68b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=908 or send a blank email to leave-908-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
