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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How did you reach the conclusion that they’re “heavily correlated”? From the studies you posted, I’m seeing effect sizes of r ≈ 0.2, which is usually considered a weak correlation. A change in one variable explains only about 4% of variance in the other.
An effect of this magnitude is, I suspect, consistent with left wing beliefs/ideology being transmitted at universities, whose population has already passed a selection filter on intelligence.
As in between peers, or do you genuinely think that universities teach socialism as an economic model that should be followed or something?
i mean i went to a conservative college for undergrad. the idiots (not all of the students, just there were some real idiots. you’ve met me) at that college (compared to the peers i met at the other universities i attended) basically put the idea in my head “if that’s this side, i want nothing to do with it. at least the idiots on the other side aren’t as idiotic or hateful”
i didn’t ever run into the idiots at the other universities (which i guess means i must’ve been it), so it was fun.