Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

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_Quasimodo
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Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

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I thought this might be fun to post here. I'm expecting some negative response.

http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html

The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults.


And:

Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
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Re: Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

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Quasimodo wrote:
Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.


I can see the social conservative but what about the fiscal conservative?
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Re: Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

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Rambo wrote:I can see the social conservative but what about the fiscal conservative?


You can be socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Two different things, really. Just as you can be a devout Christian and politically liberal (in fact, that works better).
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Two different things, really. Just as you can be a devout Christian and politically liberal (in fact, that works better).
Much more scriptural. Right for life includes health care for the poor, opposition to abortion, and opposition to the death penalty.
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