AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:
Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
Study links low intelligence with right-wing beliefs
Right-wing ideology and numeracy: A perception of greater ability, but poorer performance
Conservatism and cognitive ability
Intelligent people are more likely to be left-wing, says science
People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds
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So all elementary school students to learn basic math.
Maybe that’s not so bad for Americans, they’ll finally stop producing people who can’t follow simple economic rules.
Dear God. It’s real. Isn’t it?
Jesus. What an idiot.
One of my favourite conspiracies is that academic spaces are overwhelmingly left-leaning.
There’s a reason the right is constantly seeking to make schools worse and good education harder to access.
They don’t want competition, and they especially don’t want people that are immune to bullshit.
It’s actually something that has been done pretty much by anyone in power in the past who was trying to consolidate their position without actually giving the people what they want.
Hitler’s regime started by rounding up scientists and scholars purely to make sure nobody got any ideas that were detrimental to his power.
It’s just sad that the voters for (extremist) right people don’t see that the endgame is just for a select group, not for all, and they see themselves as part of that select group whilst they’re actually part of the other.
So MAGA folk think they’re part of that elite group that will benefit from right wing dismantling of social programs and not part of poor immigrants whilst they’re actually economically closer to those poor immigrants. Not just America, though, Germany is going in that direction as well right now and in Europe more and more of these voices are being heard.
Yup, a CERTAIN JACKASS in Cambodia did the exact same. Killed people just because they wore glasses which was a sign of dangerous intellectualism.
Yet tankies will still glaze pol pot for some reason…
Show your work.
That’s such a stupid response. As if I’m going to dig through old comments looking for the places where it happened? This isn’t a court of law, and it don’t have to present evidence to you. Especially if you’d just going to sealion about it even if I do.
And for the interactions that happened in person? How do you want me to prove those to you? Do you suggest I should carry around a device always on record and keep a record of every conversation I’ve ever had?
Everyone who’s interacted with a tankie knows glazing pol pot is exactly the kind of thing they do. Many have directly seen them do it. I don’t need to link specific examples for you.
The similarities between Pol Pot and Trump keep me up at night.
Oh yeah, all that while he used glasses, had studies in both Cambodia and France, and overall was everything he hated.
Not uncommon. Imagine an idealized nazi arian, now look up a color photo of Adolf Hitler, ideally with him standing next to other people (who aren’t Mussolini, because that guy was even shorter).
Lmao, so true.
Theory: authoritarian ppl are like that because they have really big complexes.
Even worse, they seem to be succeeding.
One of mine is that the truth (in a news/reporting/journalism respect) tends to always lean left.
I bet he’s not even talking about the real classical symbols but the new woke version!
I was honestly surprised when I visited Egypt for the first time and discovered they have different symbols for numbers in Arabic. Also, they look kind of the same as the one used with Latin alphabet, but there are some tricks like ٥ is 5 and ٦ is 6, so yeah … you have to learned them, you can’t just guess.
Woke, if not even DEI!
Everyday, Veep becomes more accurate.
I would say it wouldn’t hurt but it’s like tossing a hot dog down a hallway; kids will just be more confused and retention will likely be zero; as in how many people are still able to even read cursive writing? Let’s see how this pans out, I guess?
but you know what Arabic numerals are, right?
Here is 1 of them :D
I thought it was referring to the old style ones? I mean I’m not against people learning those, just heh good luck remembering them if you don’t use them everyday. Kinda how I had I can only understand the french in clair obscur expedition 33 but oh boy don’t ask me to write anything in french now lol
The “old style” was Indian Numerals. We have always used and been taught the original style of Arabic Numerals in the modern world.
dont you mean roman numerals? so confused
Feel free to check the link I provided.
I see, thanks for clearing that up. Media really works hard to confuse you now. I thought there was no difference and then the Indian numerals came up and I honestly didn’t know what was the actual was going on at that point.
I need a hug. We live in such a depressing world sometimes.
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This is always how it starts, then these terrorist camps will teach children how to READ. Can you imagine a society full of these people? The end is nigh, please save us president Trump.
I refuse arabic numbers. What the fuck is 2? 7? 9??? These are all made up concepts invented to corrupt the mind of people.
Look at how elegant these look instead: 10, 111, 1001.
Why use many digits when few digits do trick?
they have played us for absolute fools
This is the way. Embrace binary numbers. Reject everything that is nonbinary.
Nah, we’re keeping the NBs.
I dont care if i have to say it X times, roman numerals are superior
IV/V Romans agree…
Perfect V/VII
Yes but how is it with rice?
Only if it’s garnished with silphium.
They are letters tho.
I is a finger. V is the line down your thumb and up the fingers (a whole hand). X is both your hands crossed… that’s one theory as to why they used “letters” for numbers.
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 𒁹𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋 times, the babylonians got it right
I’ve said it at least ν times, the Greeks had the weirdest system.
We’ve said it
times, our family will use a proper Aztec numbers just like our forefathers
Base 12 ftw.
It’s base 60 actually. With up to 5 𒌋 meaning 10 followed by up to 9 𒁹 meaning one. I actually should have put a space between the 60s place and the 1s place and formatted it as: 𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋
It’s a lot easier to read in clay because you bunch the characters up within their place, and if it were used in modern day it would likely be autocorrected to make it easier
Base 60 does make dividing evenly into 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, etc. really easy.
If I were raised in China or something and used to memorizing / recognizing dozens or hundreds of symbols, then having individual symbols for the numbers 0 to 59 might be nice. But, as someone who only learned a 26 letter alphabet and 10 digits I like base 10 because it’s quick to parse a number.
How did the Babylonians write 61? 6 𒁹 symbols, a space then a single 𒁹 ? Was it easy to tell the difference between say 21 and 3?
61 would be 𒁹 𒁹. Essentially the same way we write 11. It can be compared to 𒁹𒁹 meaning 2, which would appear bunched up as opposed to separated. Plenty of room for very large errors and I suspect if it’d stuck around you’d probably see something like a distinct 1, 9, 10, and 50 tallies to indicate “hey this is where this place begins” as well as a zero. For 21 it would be 𒌋𒌋𒁹, and for 3 it’s 𒁹𒁹𒁹.
Cuneiform is a writing system highly constrained by its medium. It’s just pressing triangular reeds into clay. Any shape you can’t get out of that isn’t in the writing system. Using conjoined tallies makes sense for it.
It seems to me that with a reed you could also underline something or draw a slash between items, so you could do 𒁹 / 𒁹 for 61 vs 𒁹 𒁹 for 2.
yeah, seeing the symbols spread out across multiple characters makes it hard to tell whether that’s 100 or something else (considering i learned counting in cuneiform just this moment)
Yeah, but you have to give it credit, it’s really easy to pick up as far as number systems go. Definitely less useful for math and science than modern European-Arabic numerals, but much better for logistics and administration than say roman numerals
Base-12 is absolutely gorgeous for geometry. A metric system on base-12? <chef’s kiss>
Ive always wanted to share these on facebook as a way to call people stupid.
But then I realized they wouldn’t understand it at all.
Excuse me… all the links above use Arabic numbers: they are unreliable.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Damn “woke ass” numbers
If these people are so dumb and easily manipulated, why dont you misinformation them to do the right thing?
AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:
AKA dumb and ignorant people believe more lies. Trump loves the uneducated.
The Republican strategy for decades was to target fifth-grade intelligence. Trump’s political innovation was to target third-grade intelligence.
My only gripe is that we can’t determine whether it’s Arabic numerals or Hindu numerals. It’s more correct to say Arabic-Hindu numerals.
